Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Night is the summer and day is the winter; desire and anger are the two fields that get planted.
Greed gets the soil ready, and falsehood is the seed; attachment and clinging love are the farmer and the hired hand.
Thinking those thoughts is the plow, and wrongdoing is the harvest; that is what you earn and eat, in the flow of the One's order.
Nanak says: when you are asked for your account, that field will be barren.
Every part of this farm is a vice: desire and anger the fields, greed the soil, falsehood the seed, attachment the farmer, so that you eat exactly what you sow, all within Hukam, the flow of existence. A field farmed like that is barren when the account is asked for.
This First Mehl shalok is the dark half of a matched pair of farming pictures; its bright twin follows immediately.
What are you planting in yourself, day by day?
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