Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Eating sweet treats, a person fills up with sickness and finds no peace at all.
Forgetting the Naam, people walk on other paths, and at the very end they are sorry.
Treats and comforts leave the heart empty, and remembering the One fills it.
Mith ras khaa-ay so rog bhareejai — eating only sweet flavors fills a person with sickness. Kand mool sukh naahee — even roots and the simplest food bring no peace on their own. Peace is not about what you eat. It is about what you remember. Think of eating a whole bag of candy when you feel lonely. For a moment it feels nice. Then the lonely feeling is still there.
Naam visaar chaleh an maarag — forgetting the Naam, people walk other paths. Ant kaal pachhutaahee — at the end of life, they feel sorry. It is the ordinary wish that we had turned sooner, and a reason to remember now.
What is something you kept wanting more of, only to find it never quite satisfied you?
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