Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your ears cannot hear and your thinking has grown shallow, and still you do not quietly understand the Word.
The one who follows only their own mind loses this priceless human life. Without the Guru, the blind cannot see.
When your ears and mind close up, you miss the Word, and the Guru helps you see.
Bahray karan: deaf ears. Akal bha-ee hochhee: thinking grown shallow. The manmukh is someone turned toward their own mind, who loses janam padaarath, the priceless gift of a human life. These are ordinary ways anyone can miss things.
Bin gur andh na soojhi-aa: without the Guru, the blind cannot see. Think of a dark room. You bump into everything until someone switches on a light.
When has someone helped you notice something you'd been missing?
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