Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Through serving the Guru, devotion is practiced, and then this human body is given.
Even the gods long for this human body. So with this body, sing to the One and serve the One.
A human life is a gift so precious that even the gods long for it, so fill it with remembering and serving the One.
Gur sayvaa tay bhagat kamaa-ee: through serving the Guru, devotion is practiced. Is dayhee ka-o simrahi dayv: even the gods long for this body. In the old Indian picture the gods live in bright worlds, yet a human life is the rare chance to wake up to the One. So dayhee bhaj har kee sayv: so with this body, sing and serve the One. The feeling is celebration: what a gift this life is.
If this life is a rare and precious gift, what's one thing you'd want to do more of with it?
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