Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind leans toward the Name the way a thirsty person leans toward water.
And when I drink it in, a deep calm fills me — the restless burning inside goes quiet, like coals cooling under gentle rain.
Walking the path that people of love have walked, so many have found their way home; I want to walk it too.
To learn humbly from them is worth more than visiting every holy place on earth.
Ruchai is yearning, the mind's natural lean toward the Name. The “burning desire” (jalat chhaatee) is the fever of craving, here cooled rather than merely stopped. Patit udhray — the fallen are lifted — is softened to “found their way home.” The closing line quietly lifts inner humility above outward pilgrimage (tirath); this is a critique of empty formalism in any tradition, not of sacred places as such.
Who is someone whose way of living you would like to learn from?
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