ਪ੍ਰਿਅ ਬਿਨੁ ਸੀਗਾਰੁ ਕਰੀ ਤੇਤਾ ਤਨੁ ਤਾਪੈ ਕਾਪਰੁ ਅੰਗਿ ਨ ਸੁਹਾਈ ॥੬॥
pari-a bin seegaar karee taytaa tan taapai kaapar ang na suhaa-ee. ||6||
Without my Beloved, the more I decorate myself, the more my body burns; these clothes do not look good on my body. ||6||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without my Beloved, the more I dress myself up, the more my body burns with a restless heat.
These clothes don't look right on me.
No outfit fits right when what your heart wants can't be worn.
Dressing up on the outside cannot fill a heart that misses the One.
The verse pictures a bride making herself beautiful while her beloved is far away. Every ornament only reminds her who is missing. Tan taapai means the body burns, like a fever of missing someone. In Malaar, the raag of the rains, that heat waits for the cooling rain of the Naam, and no ornament can take its place.
A Question to Sit With
When has looking good on the outside not matched how you felt inside?
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