Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Filled up with wanting-more, a person keeps wandering restlessly and never quite does the good in front of them.
But Nanak says: the One comes to live in the heart of whoever meets the Guru — and the restlessness settles.
A sharp portrait: laalach ati-aa nit firai — "drenched in laalach (craving), forever roaming." The greedy mind is a restless mind; it is always firai, circling, because the next thing it wants is always somewhere else. And su-aarath karay na ko-ay — it does no good, because it is too busy grasping. Then the turn: jis gur bhaytai — the one who meets the Guru — has the One vasi-aa, "settled," inside. Meeting the Guru is what finally stops the roaming; the heart has somewhere to be.
When you want something badly, does it make you calmer or more restless? What settles you?
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