Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In what I think, what I say, and what I do, let the One be my support.
And so I am carried safely past the parts of the world that would poison the heart.
This one says: rest everything on the One, and the world cannot poison you.
Man bach karam govind aDhaar — in thought, word, and deed, the One is my support. Being whole in all three is a Gurbani ideal. What you feel inside and what you do outside line up.
Think of a tent with three strong poles. If all three stand on firm ground, the wind cannot knock it over.
Standing like that, a person is chhuti-o bikh sansaar — freed from the bikh, the poison, of the world. That means the parts of life that eat away at a heart with nothing to hold on to.
Do your thoughts, words, and actions usually point the same way — or pull apart?
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