Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When we forget the One and lean only on shiny things, we end up feeling tangled and a little lost.
Chasing only getting-and-having can leave a person sad at the end of the day.
That kind of heart doesn't find a resting place, because it's running on empty and running the wrong way.
But meeting real wisdom, we're set right — remembering the One, we melt back into what we belong to.
This shabad sets the manmukh (self-turned) and gurmukh (One-turned) side by side, a favorite structure of Guru Ram Das. Pauri 0 diagnoses the self-turned state gently: attaching "consciousness to Maya" — to only the getting-and-having — leaves one "departing regretfully" and finding "no place of rest." The qMonk voice avoids the harsh "foolish, deluded by sin" of a literal reading, translating the condition (tangled, running on empty, running the wrong way) rather than labeling the person. The turn comes with the Guru: "meeting the Guru they are saved... absorbed in the Name." The word samaae — absorbed, merged, melting back in — is the resolution the whole shabad drives toward.
What is something you chased hard, only to find it didn't fill you up the way you'd hoped?
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