Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When your heart turns toward the One with love, that love comes flowing right back to you.
Filled with it, you think about the teaching and let it settle deep.
With a humble, open heart, your attachment to shiny passing things loosens its grip and burns away.
Colored through and through with love for what's real, you become beautiful, not on the outside, but in the quiet way you've made peace with your own mind. Nanak says: such a heart lives in what is true, and loves the Beloved dearly.
When love fills the heart, it changes its color and makes it beautiful.
Rang rangaytee laal bha-ee — the heart is dyed and soaked until it turns deep red, the color of love. Think of a white T-shirt dropped into a bucket of red dye. It comes out red all the way through, not just on the surface.
The beauty Guru Nanak describes is not about looks. It is man maaree, a restless mind that has settled down. Maa-i-aa moh jalaa-ay — in that love, the pull of Maya, the glittering world that passes, burns away.
When have you noticed that giving love brought more of it back to you?
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