Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let your taste for treats and pleasures be the firewood, and your greed the ghee, the melted butter;
put your selfish wanting and your anger in as the oil, and burn them all in the fire.
Some people make fire offerings, hold sacred feasts, and read the Puraanas, the old holy books.
Whatever pleases the One is what is accepted.
Your cravings, greed and anger are the fuel for an offering inside you, and whatever pleases the One is accepted.
Guru Nanak builds an inner fire-offering: pleasures the firewood, greed the ghee, desire and anger the oil, all burned away. He names hom jag, fire offerings and sacred feasts, and paath puraan, reading the Puraanas, with respect. Jo tis bhaavai so parvaan: whatever pleases the One is accepted. The gaze turns inward, to the heart that offers.
What is one habit you would be glad to let burn away for good?
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