Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Guru is the boat that carries me across the wide, rough sea of the world.
Meeting the Guru, I am not born again and again.
That person comes to serve the Guru whose karma was written that way from the very beginning.
The Guru is a boat across life's rough sea, and meeting the Guru ends the round of coming and going.
Gur bohith is the Guru as a boat. Bhavjal is the world-ocean, life with all its waves. Jon autaar means being born again and again, and meeting the Guru brings that circle to an end. Karam likhi-aa dhur is karma written from the beginning: the readiness to serve the Guru is a gift that was there before you knew it.
Who or what has been a boat for you when things felt overwhelming?
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