Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This whole world is like the rainbird, always thirsty. Don't let doubt fool you.
The rainbird is only a creature, like an animal with no understanding; it does not know what will end its thirst.
The Naam of the One is sweet nectar. Drink it, and the thirst goes away.
Nanak says: those who drink it by following the Guru never feel that thirst again.
The world is thirsty like the rainbird, and the Naam is the nectar that ends the thirst.
A salok of the Third Mehl, Guru Amar Das. The baabeehaa, the rainbird or pied cuckoo, is said to drink only drops of falling rain, so it is Malaar's picture of viraha, longing. Here the whole world is that bird: restless and wanting, and pasoo, like an animal that does not understand what it needs. Amrit naam, the nectar of the Naam, is the one rain that ends the thirst.
What have you been thirsty for that no amount of getting more ever seems to fill?
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