Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The one Name is the real treasure, learned friend — listen, this is the true teaching.
Whatever you read while your heart is split in two, however much you study and mull it over, will only keep you aching.
The shabad opens by addressing a Pandit, a learned scholar — and gently unsettles the assumption that learning is the treasure. The One Name is. Reading done "in duality" — with a heart split between the One and its substitutes — only multiplies suffering, because knowledge without love feeds the very separateness it studies. This is not anti-learning; it is a reordering: knowledge in the service of love heals, knowledge in the service of the ego aches.
Have you ever known a lot about something but still felt no closer to it? What was missing?
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