Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You do not keep truth, self-control, discipline, or humility. The spirit inside your body has dried up like old wood.
You have not given to others, shared what you have, bathed at holy places, or kept discipline. Without the Sangat, your life has gone to waste.
Without goodness and the Sangat, a life can dry up and slip by empty.
The verse names four good habits. Jat is self-control, sat is truth, sanjam is discipline, and seel is gentle humility. When these are not practiced, the verse gives a hard picture. The spirit inside the body turns to kaasat, dry wood.
It means a spirit that has gone dry and brittle, like a plant no one has watered. The verse also names kindness, giving, bathing and discipline as practices that were skipped.
Then it names what could have kept the life alive. SaaDhsangat is the Sangat: people gathered together to remember the One. Without it, the verse says, a life goes baad, wasted. It is like a garden that gets no rain. The Sangat is the water.
What fills a life up so it does not slip away empty?
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