Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let me remember the One with my whole mind and body — this is written into me from the very beginning, the deepest thing I'm made for.
The tempting things that promise so much and deliver so little are of no real use in the end.
This is the Rahao, the heart of the shabad. Simar govind... dhur likhi-aa — remembering the One is dhur likhi-aa, "written from the origin" — the literal renders this as preordained destiny, which can be felt as our deepest nature, what we are made for. Bikhi-aa — often "the poison of Maya" — is here the glittering stuff that promises fulfillment and can't provide it. The pauri sets our truest calling (remembrance) against the emptiest chase (grasping at what can't satisfy), and gently points home.
What is something you feel you were, in some deep way, made for?
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