Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let your two hands be the buckets strung on the chain of the well-wheel, and hitch your mind like a strong ox to turn it and draw the water up.
Water your fields with sweet nectar and fill every bed, and then you will belong to the One, the Gardener.
Put your hands and mind to work drawing up nectar for the field of your heart, and you belong to the Gardener.
Guru Nanak turns the old Persian wheel (harihat) into a picture of the inner life: hands as buckets, the mind yoked like an ox to do the work, drawing up amrit (nectar) to irrigate the heart's field. Do this, and tau maalee kay hovhu — you belong to the One, the Gardener, tended and grown. Effort and grace meet: you do the drawing; the One does the growing.
What is something good that only grows if you water it every day?
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