Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Cruelty, clinging, craving, and ego -- these are a bottomless hunger, roaring through you like a wild flooded river that can never be filled. Let awe be your food, your drink, the ground under your feet. Without it, people just rush through life and are gone.
A compact list close to the panch vikaar -- slander, attachment, desire, ego -- named as a hunger and a wild stream in flood: appetites that can never be satisfied because satisfaction is not their nature. The remedy is startling -- make awe your food and drink. Awe is not a feeling to have occasionally but the daily diet that quiets the roaring hunger. Compare Har Ras: the gurmukh is satisfied where the craving mind stays parched.
Have you noticed how some wants just lead to more wants? What actually leaves you feeling full?
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