Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A life that never pauses to remember what's good can feel strangely empty and flavorless.
But a heart that knows the One who made it is full and alive.
A short Shalok of Guru Arjan (Fifth Mehl): a body "which does not remember the Lord's Name in the Company of the Holy shall be reduced to dust... cursed and insipid." The word pheekaa — insipid, flavorless — is the key: a life lived without any inner turn isn't punished so much as tasteless, missing its savor. The qMonk voice keeps the gentle contrast — empty-and-flavorless versus full-and-alive — and drops the harsher "cursed." The remedy is quietly social: remembrance in the Saadh Sangat, good company.
What gives your days their 'flavor' and makes them feel full rather than empty?
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