Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The world is busy with the words of the Vedas, the old holy books, and keeps thinking about the three moods of nature: calm, restless and heavy.
Without the Naam, it suffers at the hands of death, and dies and is born again, over and over.
Meeting the True Guru, it is set free and finds the door to freedom.
Studying about the One is good, but it is not the same as meeting the One.
Bayd banee jag varatdaa trai gun karay beechaar: the world is busy with the words of the Vedas, the old holy books, and thinks about the trai gun. These are the three moods of nature: calm, restless and heavy. The warning is not against any tradition. It is about learning that stays on the surface, in any faith.
Without the Name, the verse says, life goes round and round. Think of a hamster on a wheel, running hard and getting nowhere. Meeting the True Guru opens the way past the surface. The door to freedom swings open, and the circling stops.
When have you learned lots of facts about something without understanding it deep down?
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