Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Imagine weaving a garland — but instead of flowers picked from a bush, you string it together from your own good qualities: a bit of kindness here, some honesty there, a little courage.
A garland like that is the one that truly delights the One. Once you can grow your own flowers, why go hunting for any others?
kaa-i-aa koomal, ful gun = the body's fresh leaves and the flowers of virtue woven into a maalaa, a garland. The offering the One loves is not external ritual but a life strung together from virtues. avar ke chuneeah daal = so why pick other, external flowers? — inner virtue over outward offering.
If your good qualities were flowers, which ones would be in your garland?
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