Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Serve the Teacher, young heart, and you will find your Beloved. You will be counted among the loved for good, and never dressed in sorrow again.
Never again in soiled clothes — though only a rare heart, facing the Teacher, sees this and quiets its ego.
So make good deeds your practice, melt into the Word, and come to know the One within. Such a heart delights in the One day and night and receives real honor. It delights in its own Beloved, the One who fills every place.
sadaa hoveh sohaaganee fir mailaa vays na ho-ee — forever among the loved, never again in mailaa vays, soiled clothes. In the old world, soiled clothes and widowhood were marks of social shame; Guru Amar Das overturns that: a heart joined to the deathless One is never cast aside, never marked as lesser. We keep the promise (never abandoned, never dressed in sorrow) and let go of the stigma. karnee kaar kamaavai — make good action your actual practice; belonging shows in doing.
When have you felt sure you belonged somewhere, so that no one could make you feel left out?
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