Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A tongue that forgets to say anything kind or true is letting something precious slip away.
A heart turned toward the One naturally speaks with love — the good just wants to come out.
The companion Shalok (Third Mehl) repeats the tongue-image with a twist: the tongue that has forgotten the Name versus the gurmukh's tongue that "chants the Lord's Name and loves it." Read together (P12–13), the pair makes one point: our words matter enormously, and a heart turned toward goodness will naturally speak kindly — the good wants to come out. The qMonk voice frames the warning as "letting something precious slip away," never as a curse.
When your heart feels full of something good, how do your words change?
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