Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Inside the body-fortress are the hard, rigid doors of falseness, deceit and pride.
Blinded by doubt, the self-centered can't even see them; no effort finds them, and robe-wearers grow tired trying. The doors open only by the Word — and then one chants the Name. The One is the tree of nectar; those who drink are content.
The fifteenth Pauree pictures the heart as a fortress with "hard and rigid doors" of falsehood and pride — locked from the inside, invisible to the doubt-blinded. No amount of religious effort ("wearing their religious robes") picks the lock; "the doors are opened only by the Word." Some inner barriers won't yield to willpower or ritual; they open only to the truth spoken by the teaching.
What locked 'door' in you hasn't opened to effort? What truth might finally unlock it?
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