Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Now I have come and stepped inside the One's shelter.
This terrible fire has burned so many; the true teaching warned me about it.
The Pause line is a survivor's relief. The devotee has "entered the Lord's Sanctuary" and looks back at "this awful fire" — the consuming heat of craving and forgetting — that "has burned so many." What saved them was warning: "the True Guru has cautioned me about it." There is humility here — not "I was too strong for the fire" but "I was warned in time." Rescue often begins with someone who loves you telling you the truth about a danger you couldn't yet see.
Who warned you about something in time? What made you able to actually hear the warning?
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