ਭੈਰਉ ਮਹਲਾ ੩ ॥
bhairo mehlaa 3.
Bhairao, Third Mehl:
ਦੁਖ ਵਿਚਿ ਜੰਮੈ ਦੁਖਿ ਮਰੈ ਦੁਖ ਵਿਚਿ ਕਾਰ ਕਮਾਇ ॥
dukh vich jammai dukh marai dukh vich kaar kamaa-ay.
In pain he is born, in pain he dies, and in pain he does his deeds.
ਗਰਭ ਜੋਨੀ ਵਿਚਿ ਕਦੇ ਨ ਨਿਕਲੈ ਬਿਸਟਾ ਮਾਹਿ ਸਮਾਇ ॥੧॥
garabh jonee vich kaday na niklai bistaa maahi samaa-ay. ||1||
He is never released from the womb of reincarnation; he rots away in manure. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In pain they are born, in pain they die, and in pain they do all their work.
They never get free from the round of being born again and again, and they sink down into the muck.
Pain can feel endless, but a gentler path is always opening.
A life lived away from the One is pain from start to finish, going round and round.
Dukh vich jammai dukh marai: born in pain, dying in pain, working in pain. Garabh jonee vich kaday na niklai: never coming out of the round of births. Bistaa maahi samaa-ay: sinking into filth. The picture is stark, and the pause line that follows names whose life this is: the one who wastes it away from the Guru and the Naam.
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