Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One made the world and weighs the good and the bad in it.
Caught in the world's three moods — calm, restless and heavy — people give no love to the Naam.
They leave the good and do the wrong, and they end up sad and ashamed in the One's Court.
They lose their life like a bet in a game. Why did they even come into the world?
Those who quiet their mind through the True Word love the Naam, day and night.
They keep the True One, unseen and endless, in their hearts.
You are the Giver of good qualities, a treasure; I have none of my own.
Whoever You forgive finds You, thinking on the Guru's Word.
Caught in the world's three moods, people gamble their life away; the One's forgiveness and the Guru's Word bring them home.
This is the thirteenth pauri. Trai gun: the three strands of the world (sattva, rajas, tamas — calm, restless, heavy) that keep the mind tangled. The lost bet warns against staking a life on what passes. Asee avgani-aar, I have no virtues: honest empty hands, never self-contempt, and this humility opens the door.
Which of the three pulls, restlessness, heaviness, or calm, is strongest in you today?
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