Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your mind is restless, yogi, while you sit in your yoga pose.
You blow your horn every day, and still you feel sad.
You have not understood Gorakh, your own guru.
Again and again, yogi, you come and go.
A still body with a restless mind keeps you going around in circles.
Chal chit jogee aasan tayraa — the seat is steady but the mind is not. Singee, the yogi's horn, sounds, and sadness stays. Gur gorakh kee tai boojh na paa-ee — even Gorakh, the yogis' revered guru, is not understood when forms are kept without insight. Outer discipline without inner understanding only circles: fir fir aavai jaa-ee, coming and going again and again.
Is there something you can do "perfectly" on the outside while feeling unsettled inside?
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