Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When ego and pride fall away, the heart is soaked through with love.
Pretending and putting on a show never reach the One.
Without the Guru's Word, no one finds the door of the One's home.
Nanak says: the one who follows the Guru reflects on what lies at the heart of everything.
When pride melts away, the heart fills up with love.
Ha-umai garab jaa-ay — when ego and pride leave. Ha-umai means the "me first" feeling. When it goes, man bheenai: the mind is soaked through with love, like a sponge dropped into warm water.
Jhooth means falseness and pakhand means putting on a show. Both are dead ends. You cannot reach the One by pretending.
Ghar baar is the true home, and without the Guru's Word the heart cannot find it. Tat beechaar means seeing into the heart of what is real.
So the shabad ends where it began, with the One. You do not get there by force. You get there with an empty, open heart, the way a cup can only be filled when it is not already full.
What would change if you let go of trying to seem a certain way?
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