ਧ੍ਰਿਗੁ ਧ੍ਰਿਗੁ ਨਰ ਨਿੰਦਕ ਜਿਨ ਜਨ ਨਹੀ ਭਾਏ ਹਰਿ ਕੇ ਸਖਾ ਸਖਾਇ ॥
Dharig Dharig nar nindak jin jan nahee bhaa-ay har kay sakhaa sakhaa-ay.
Cursed, cursed are the slanderers who do not like the humble, the friends and companions of the Lord.
ਸੇ ਹਰਿ ਕੇ ਚੋਰ ਵੇਮੁਖ ਮੁਖ ਕਾਲੇ ਜਿਨ ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਪੈਜ ਨ ਭਾਇ ॥੪॥
say har kay chor vaimukh mukh kaalay jin gur kee paij na bhaa-ay. ||4||
Those who do not like the honor and glory of the Guru are faithless, black-faced thieves, who have turned their backs on the Lord. ||4||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Shame, shame on the slanderers who do not like the humble, the friends and companions of the One.
Those who cannot bear the Guru's honor have turned their backs on the One. They are like thieves, their faces darkened with disgrace.
Turning your back on goodness leaves no one out in the cold but you.
The words are fierce: Dhrig (shame on them) and “black-faced thieves,” an old idiom for disgrace. Underneath them is a living teaching: to reject goodness is to rob only yourself. Vaimukh means one who faces away — and facing away from the good leaves you, not the good, out in the cold. Ill-will is self-defeating.
A Question to Sit With
Has turning away from something good ever ended up hurting you most?
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