Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
With dirt inside, a person wanders from one holy river to the next.
If the mind is not clean, what good is all the ritual washing?
You carry what your own past actions have set going. Who else can you blame?
A holy river cannot wash a cloudy mind, and what we carry comes from our own actions.
Antar mail means dirt inside. A tirath is a place of pilgrimage, often a holy river. The aim is washing without a clean heart, never pilgrims who travel with love. Kirat pa-i-aa is what our own past actions have set in motion, our karma. Dos kaa ka-o deejai asks: whom can you blame? The question points inward. Change begins inside, not at a far-off shrine.
When something goes wrong, what does it look like to start the fixing inside yourself?
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