Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A person thinks about the teachings of the Vedas, all inside the three passing moods.
They trade in what is poisonous and dirty.
They die and are born again, and are lost again and again.
The one who faces the Guru keeps the fourth state, the highest calm, in the heart.
We all have moods that come and go. Underneath them is a deeper calm, and the Guru helps us find it.
Tarai gun are the three gun, three kinds of mood or energy in everything: restless, heavy, and bright. Tarai gun banee bayd beechaar: thinking only inside these three keeps a person going around in circles. Stuck there, we trade in the same old mistakes, and the verse says such a life is lost again and again.
The gurmukh, the one who faces the Guru, holds something more. Gurmukh turee-aa gun ur Dhaar: they keep the turee-aa, the fourth state beyond the three, in the heart.
Think of the weather. Clouds, storms and sunshine pass across the sky. High above them, the sky stays calm. The moods are the weather. The fourth state is the steady sky. There is nothing to fear in the weather.
When your mood is stormy, can you sense a calmer part of you underneath?
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