Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If your guide can't see clearly, the fog won't lift, no matter how you try.
Let go of the Source and cling to lesser things. Then you end up soaked in the very things that leave you emptier.
This one says a guide who cannot see clearly cannot clear away your fog.
AnDhay guroo tay bharam na jaa-ee — from a blind guide, one who cannot see, doubt does not leave. Mool chhod laagay doojai bhaa-ee — people leave the mool, the Root and Source, and hold on to doojai bhaa-ee, love of "the other," of lesser things.
Bikh kaa maataa bikh maahi samaa-ee — soaked in poison, they sink into poison. In other words, they end up soaked in the very things that leave them emptier.
Think of asking directions from someone who is lost too. You both just walk in circles. The teaching is about choosing wisely. A clear guide clears the fog; an unseeing one cannot. This is not a put-down of any person. It is a caution about where we look for guidance.
How can you tell whether someone giving you advice can actually see clearly themselves?
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