ਮੋਹ ਰੋਗ ਸੋਗ ਤਨੁ ਬਾਧਿਓ ਬਹੁ ਜੋਨੀ ਭਰਮਾਈਐ ॥
moh rog sog tan baaDhi-o baho jonee bharmaa-ee-ai.
The body is tied up with emotional attachment, disease and sorrow, and so it is lured into countless reincarnations.
ਟਿਕਨੁ ਨ ਪਾਵੈ ਬਿਨੁ ਸਤਸੰਗਤਿ ਕਿਸੁ ਆਗੈ ਜਾਇ ਰੂਆਈਐ ॥੧॥
tikan na paavai bin satsangat kis aagai jaa-ay roo-aa-ee-ai. ||1||
He finds no place of rest without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; to whom should he go and cry? ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The body is bound up with attachment, disease and sorrow, and lured into endless circling.
Without good company it finds no rest — so to whom should it go and cry?
When you're trapped and don't know 'to whom to cry,' the answer is good company — where the crying finds a listener.
The verse names the trapped condition — "tied up with emotional attachment, disease and sorrow" — and the loneliness of it: "to whom should he go and cry?" There is no relief "without the Saadh Sangat." The answer to the anguished question is implied: go to good company; that is where the crying finds a listening and the trapped find rest.
A Question to Sit With
When you feel trapped, where — or to whom — do you go? Is it somewhere that gives rest?
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