Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
From the very beginning, by the One's will, the True Guru, a lake, and the soul, a swan, were meant to be joined.
Diamonds lie in this lake, and they are the swans' food.
Cranes and ravens may be very clever, but they do not stay at this lake.
They do not find their food there; their food is something else.
Living the Truth, you find the True One. The pride of the false is false.
Nanak says: only those meet the True Guru whose meeting was written, by the One's order, from the start.
The True Guru is a lake, the soul a hans, a swan, and the lake's diamonds are the swan's natural food, Truth itself. Cranes and ravens, however clever, do not stay, because this is not their food; each creature is drawn by its own nature. The union is meant from the beginning, and the pride of the false has nothing to rest on.
This First Mehl shalok near the Vaar's close returns to the swan picture from earlier in the Vaar.
What kind of food does your best self thrive on?
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