Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who follow only their own mind lose the money they started with, and still they ask for profit. How can there be any profit?
Death hangs over their heads all the time. Caught up in loving something other than the One, they lose their honor.
Lose what you started with, and there is no profit left to ask for; a heart pulled toward everything but the One loses its honor.
Manmukh mool gavaaveh laabh maageh: the one turned toward their own mind spends the mool, the starting money, and still asks for profit. Picture a shopkeeper who gives away the whole stock and then waits for earnings. Jamkaal sadaa hai sir oopar: death is always overhead, a reminder that time here is short. Doojai bhaa-ay pat khoee: in doojaa bhaa-o, the love of something other than the One, honor is lost.
What is something valuable that is easy to overlook?
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