Sikhism·Raag Malaar·Shabad 44
Verse 3 of 3

Turning Toward What Heals

ਕਾਮ ਕਰੋਧ ਮਹਾ ਬਿਖਿਆ ਰਸ ਇਨ ਤੇ ਭਏ ਨਿਰਾਰੇ ॥
kaam karoDh mahaa bikhi-aa ras in tay bha-ay niraaray.
Sexual desire, anger and the pleasures of terrible corruption - he keeps away from these.
ਦੀਨ ਦਇਆਲ ਜਪਹਿ ਕਰੁਣਾ ਮੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਸਦ ਬਲਿਹਾਰੇ ॥੨॥੯॥੧੩॥
deen da-i-aal jaapeh karunaa mai naanak sad balihaaray. ||2||9||13||
He meditates on the Lord, Merciful to the meek, the Embodiment of Compassion; Nanak is forever a sacrifice to Him. ||2||9||13||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Wild wanting, anger, and the sweet taste of things that poison the heart: they stay far away from all of these.

They remember the One, kind to the humble, full of compassion. Nanak says: I give myself to the One, forever.

The pulls that don't serve you loosen on their own when your heart is full of something better.
The deeper layer

Remember the kind and caring One, and the pulls of wanting and anger fall away.

Kaam karodh mahaa bikhi-aa ras: desire, anger, and the taste of things that poison. In tay bha-ay niraaray: those who remember stay apart from them. These pulls are like an illness that heals as the heart fills with the One.

Deen da-i-aal: kind to the humble. Karunaa mai: full of compassion. Sad balihaaray: forever a sacrifice, which means giving your whole self gladly, in love.

A Question to Sit With

What good thing, when you focus on it, makes a bad habit lose its pull?

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