Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Ego and pride entice the self-centered and eat them up.
Fix on a second and you get stuck fast. Only when it's burned by the Word does it leave; then body and mind go radiant, and the Name moves in. Nanak says: the Name is the antidote to the glitter; the Gurmukh receives it.
The Shalok names the Name as "the antidote to Maya" — Maya is a poison, and there is a cure. Ego cannot be reasoned away; it "is burnt away by the Word of the Guru's Shabad" — consumed, not negotiated with. And once it goes, "body and mind become radiant": the removal of the ego is not a loss but a lighting-up. The antidote heals the whole person.
What in you might need to be 'burned away' rather than argued with? What would be left glowing?
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