Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This body is all blood. Without blood, there is no body.
Those who are tuned to their Beloved do not carry the blood of greed in them.
In awe of the One, the body grows lean, and the blood of greed drains out.
As fire makes metal pure, awe of the One burns away the dirt of a wrong-thinking mind.
Nanak says: beautiful are the people who are dyed in the color of the One's love.
A single word, blood, carries two meanings. Ordinary blood keeps the body alive; the blood of greed (lobh) is the picture underneath. In one tuned to the One, that greed thins and leaves. The fire-purifies-metal image, reverence as the refining flame, recurs across the tradition, and the last word goes to the beauty of the humble, not to any shaming of the greedy.
What is something small and greedy you would like to let drain away?
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