Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without overcoming this split, nothing else quite lands. You could do countless good deeds, chants and disciplines, and still it would not land.
Without healing it, the deeper restlessness never really settles, and the fear of ending never truly loosens.
This one says that without healing the split, even good deeds don't quite land.
Now the song turns to the other side: what happens if dubidhaa, the split from the One, stays.
Kot karam jaap tap karai — "one may do millions of good acts, chants and hard disciplines." Jaap is chanting. Tap is strict discipline.
Even so, thaa-ay na parai, "it is not accepted." It does not land. That is because it is done from the divided self.
Think of watering a plant only on its leaves. The leaves look shiny, but the roots stay dry.
The verse goes on. Without this healing, a person does not escape the round of birth, and does not escape death. In plain words, the deep restlessness never settles, and the fear of ending never loosens.
The lesson: outward effort alone, without healing inside, leaves the root untouched.
Can you do all the right things on the outside and still feel unsettled on the inside?
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