Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If love for the Name never takes root, a person may pile on outer show after outer show.
But that kind of attachment cracks and drains away in a moment, like water running out of a broken pot.
Inner love, or outer show: har kay naam si-o preet na laagee, no love formed for the Naam, while anik bhaykh, many outer forms and costumes, are heaped up. Such attachment breaks — tootat baar na laagai, in no time at all — like a cracked gaagar, a clay pot, losing its water. The critique targets empty formalism wherever it appears, not any particular tradition — the outer form without the inner love simply cannot hold.
What is something that looks good on the outside but needs something real inside to last?
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