ਪ੍ਰਣਵਤਿ ਨਾਮਦੇਉ ਨਾਕਹਿ ਬਿਨਾ ॥
paranvat naamday-o naakeh binaa.
Prays Naam Dayv, a man without a nose
ਨਾ ਸੋਹੈ ਬਤੀਸ ਲਖਨਾ ॥੩॥੨॥
naa sohai batees lakhnaa. ||3||2||
does not look handsome, even if he has the thirty-two beauty marks. ||3||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Namdev prays: a face without a nose does not look handsome, even with all thirty-two marks of beauty.
All the gifts in the world are incomplete without the One at the center.
A life with every gift still looks incomplete without the One at its center.
Namdev's vivid closing image: a face with all thirty-two marks of beauty still looks incomplete if it lacks a nose. So a life full of gifts is incomplete without the One at its center. The Naam is what completes it.
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