Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Some hearts fill with anger the moment they hear the One's name — a hard and unlucky state to be in.
You can set the sweetest nectar in front of crows, and they'll still go for the dirt; it's what their taste is turned toward.
A vivid, compassionate diagnosis. Some recoil from the Name — and the verse explains it not as evil but as a taste pointed the wrong way: crows offered nectar still choose dung, because craving has trained their palate. This is the raag's psychology of desire: we go toward what we've conditioned ourselves to want. Held gently, it is not contempt for the "crow" but a mirror — and an invitation to notice and slowly retrain what we hunger for.
What have you trained yourself to want that isn't actually good for you — and could you retrain it?
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