ਸਲੋਕ ॥
salok.
Shalok:
ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਬਿਨੁ ਭ੍ਰਮਿ ਮੁਈ ਕਰਤੀ ਕਰਮ ਅਨੇਕ ॥
saaDhsangat bin bharam mu-ee kartee karam anayk.
Without the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, one dies wandering around in confusion, performing all sorts of rituals.
ਕੋਮਲ ਬੰਧਨ ਬਾਧੀਆ ਨਾਨਕ ਕਰਮਹਿ ਲੇਖ ॥੧॥
komal banDhan baaDhee-aa naanak karmeh laykh. ||1||
O Nanak, all are bound by the attractive bonds of Maya, and the karmic record of past actions. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without the Sangat, people wander lost in confusion all their lives, busy with every kind of ritual, until they die.
Nanak says: everyone is tied by the soft, pretty ties of Maya, the pull of the world, and by what they have done before.
Being busy is not the same as finding your way.
Saadhsangat bin — without the Sangat, people gathered together to remember the One, the mind circles in bhram (confusion), piling up outward karam (acts, rituals) that do not quiet it. Komal bandhan — "soft, pretty bonds": the gentle-seeming attachments that hold us precisely because they feel pleasant. All through the Ruti, the way out is the Sangat.
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