Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Most of the world gets tugged around by three great pulls — the pull to rush, the pull to grab, the pull to slump. Only a few settle into a fourth, still place underneath them all.
The ones who get there aren't special by luck; they simply let the One live in their thoughts, and that made them clear and clean inside.
The teen gun — the three gunas of Indian thought: rajas (restless energy/passion), tamas (heaviness/inertia), and sattva (balance/goodness) — are the three "pulls" that keep the mind swinging. Tureeaa is the "fourth state," a stillness beneath and beyond all three, the ground that does not swing. Guru Arjan borrows this classical map respectfully and then relocates its goal: you reach the fourth state not by technique but by letting the One dwell in the mind (jin man vasiaa soay). Nirmal ("pure, spotless") describes the result — not a moral prize but the natural clearness of a settled mind.
Can you find a still place inside you even when your feelings are pulling three different ways?
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