Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold the guide's presence close in your heart. Keeping the One in mind, you cross straight over the ocean of fire — the burning trouble that seems too wide to pass.
Hold the Guru close in your heart, and you are carried across the fire.
Gur kay charan ridai ur Dhaar — keep the Guru's feet, the Guru's guidance, close in your heart. Agan saagar jap utreh paar — remembering, you cross the ocean of fire.
The ocean of fire is a picture Gurbani, the Guru's Word, uses often. It means a life of burning wants and worry. Remembering the One does not dry up that ocean. It carries you across it, dry and safe. It is like a bridge over a busy road: the traffic keeps rushing, but you cross above it.
What trouble in your life feels too wide to cross — and who could help you across it?
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