Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Someone who tricks others and never learns where the profit lies is not clever. They have lost their way.
They trade away what is worthwhile for what is worthless, and forget to hold the beautiful One in mind.
Tricking people only means you have lost your way.
Balbanch karai — someone who tricks others. They do not know where laabh, the real profit, is. So they are nahee dhoorat, not clever. They are moorhaa, foolish. The meaning is gentle: they have lost their way.
Su-aarath ti-aag asaarath rachi-o — they let go of what is worthwhile and keep busy with what is not. And they forget to keep the beautiful One in mind.
Think of trading a real gold coin for a shiny plastic one because it looks brighter. The problem is a wrong idea of what is valuable. No person is written off.
Have you ever seen someone win in a way that was a kind of losing?
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