Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Crying 'Wonder!', the Gurmukhs praise the One always, while the self-centered eat poison and waste away.
They have no love for praise and pass their lives in misery. The Gurmukhs drink the nectar and rest their minds on praise. Nanak says: those who cry 'Wonder!' are pure, and come to know the three worlds.
The Shalok contrasts two diets: the Gurmukhs "drink in the Ambrosial Nectar" of praise, the self-centered "eat poison." Praise and its absence are framed as what we consume — one nourishes, one slowly harms. The person with "no love for the Lord's Praises" isn't punished from outside; the joyless refusal of wonder is its own slow misery. What you feed on, you become.
What are you 'feeding on' most — wonder and gratitude, or something more like slow poison?
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