ਮੀਤ ਸਖੇ ਕੇਤੇ ਜਗ ਮਾਹੀ ॥
meet sakhay kaytay jag maahee.
You may have many friends and companions in the world,
ਬਿਨੁ ਗੁਰ ਪਰਮੇਸਰ ਕੋਈ ਨਾਹੀ ॥
bin gur parmaysar ko-ee naahee.
but without the Guru, the Transcendent Lord Incarnate, there is no one at all.
ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਸੇਵਾ ਮੁਕਤਿ ਪਰਾਇਣਿ ਅਨਦਿਨੁ ਕੀਰਤਨੁ ਕੀਨਾ ਹੇ ॥੧੧॥
gur kee sayvaa mukat paraa-in an-din keertan keenaa hay. ||11||
Service to the Guru is the way to liberation. Night and day, sing the Kirtan of the Lord's Praises. ||11||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You may have many friends and companions, and that is a gift.
Yet without the Guru, the One made present, there is no one at all.
Serving the Guru and singing the praises of the One, day and night, opens the road to freedom.
Many friends are a gift; the Guru shows the way home.
Meet sakhay kaytay jag maahee — there are many friends in the world, and each one is a gift. The Guru, gur parmaysar, the One made present, lights the path the others cannot. Keertan — singing praise — is the daily practice, an-din, day and night.
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