Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are pure and spotless, almighty Master; how could someone unclean like me meet You?
One thing lives in my mind and another on my lips — I am a poor, unlucky pretender.
This is a strikingly honest confession of hypocrisy — "I have one thing in my mind, and another thing on my lips." The gap between inner reality and outer speech is named without excuse. Read through the voice rules, this is not self-hatred but the searching honesty of someone who genuinely wants their inside and outside to match, and grieves that they don't yet. Naming the gap is the first step to closing it; the honest self-examination is itself a movement toward integrity.
Where does your 'inside' not yet match your 'outside'? Can you name it honestly, without either excusing or attacking yourself?
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