ਸਲੋਕ ਮਃ ੧ ॥
salok mehlaa 1.
Shalok, First Mehl:
ਵੈਦੁ ਬੁਲਾਇਆ ਵੈਦਗੀ ਪਕੜਿ ਢੰਢੋਲੇ ਬਾਂਹ ॥
vaid bulaa-i-aa vaidgee pakarh dhandholay baaNh.
The physician was called in; he touched my arm and felt my pulse.
ਭੋਲਾ ਵੈਦੁ ਨ ਜਾਣਈ ਕਰਕ ਕਲੇਜੇ ਮਾਹਿ ॥੧॥
bholaa vaid na jaan-ee karak kalayjay maahi. ||1||
The foolish physician did not know that the pain was in the mind. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The doctor was called in to treat me. He took hold of my arm and felt my pulse.
The simple doctor did not know that the pain was deep inside, in my heart.
Some aches are not in the body, and no pulse will show them.
Some pain lives deep inside, where no pulse can show it.
Vaid is a doctor of the old healing ways. He feels the pulse at the wrist, pakarh dhandholay baanh. But the karak, the ache, sits in the kalejaa, the heart, where his fingers cannot reach. He is bholaa, simple and well-meaning, and he looks in the wrong place.
The next salok answers this one: a good healer first finds where the illness lies.
A Question to Sit With
Is there an ache you carry that a checkup would never find?
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