ਸਲੋਕ ਮਃ ੫ ॥
salok mehlaa 5.
Shalok, Fifth Mehl:
ਮੁਹਬਤਿ ਜਿਸੁ ਖੁਦਾਇ ਦੀ ਰਤਾ ਰੰਗਿ ਚਲੂਲਿ ॥
muhabat jis khudaa-ay dee rataa rang chalool.
One who loves God is imbued with the deep crimson color of His love.
ਨਾਨਕ ਵਿਰਲੇ ਪਾਈਅਹਿ ਤਿਸੁ ਜਨ ਕੀਮ ਨ ਮੂਲਿ ॥੧॥
naanak virlay paa-ee-ah tis jan keem na mool. ||1||
O Nanak, such a person is rarely found; the value of such a humble person can never be estimated. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever loves the One is dyed in the deep crimson color of that love.
Nanak says: such people are rarely found, and their worth can never be measured.
Love that soaks all the way through cannot be measured or faked.
Love is pictured as a deep crimson dye (chalool), a color that soaks all the way through and never washes out, unlike the fading safflower earlier in the Vaar. Such a lover is rare and beyond all price. Love like that, like the fast dye, cannot be faked. Khudaa-ay, a Persian word for the One, sits here beside the Indian words of the Vaar.
A Question to Sit With
What is something you love so deeply it has changed the color of who you are?
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