Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Sometimes I'm so hungry for more — more stuff, more of everything — that I wonder how I'll ever feel at home with the One.
So I go to the teaching and hold the Name close, morning and night.
The One is kind, spotless, and stands beside those who have the least.
The work I am meant to do was set from the very start. Doing it, my puffed-up self fades and my restless mind grows calm.
When I remember the Name, the endless wanting finally goes quiet, because the Name is the sweetest thing there is, sweeter than anything I was chasing.
The Name is so sweet that the endless wanting goes quiet.
Bhookh pi-aaso aath — hungry and thirsty for aath, which means money and things. It is like scrolling a shopping app and never feeling done. The cure is not to want harder. It is to taste something sweeter.
Naanak naam mahaa ras meethaa — the Name is the sweetest taste of all. It stills tarisnaa, craving, the thirst that never ends. Deenaa naath — the One is the Master of the humble, of those who have least.
What's something you kept wanting more of, until something better made the wanting stop?
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