Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Set down your cleverness and your clever little tricks for a while. Lean instead on the complete teacher, and let yourself be held. There is rest in not having to outsmart everything.
Chhaad si-aanap baho chaturaa-ee -- set aside cleverness and cunning. Gur pooray kee tayk tikaa-ee -- lean on the support of the perfect teacher. Guru Arjan's counsel is not against thinking but against self-reliant cleverness in place of the teacher's support — which a contemporary reader may recognise as the exhausting compulsion to control everything by wit. Tayk is a support to rest against. Compare 361: real wisdom is the heart's turning, not mental scheming.
When has trying to be clever about everything just worn you out?
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