Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A person can dress in spotless white and look perfectly holy. They can still carry a hard, unkind heart underneath.
What matters is what actually lives inside. Do the words on the lips also live in the heart? Do I remember where I truly come from?
Clean clothes do not make a clean heart.
Chitay jin kay kaprhay mailay chit kathor: some people wear white clothes, but inside, their hearts are stained and hard. They say the Name with their mouths, but their minds are split in two.
This is about empty show in any tradition, not about any one group of people. The verse aims at what is hollow, wherever it is found.
It is like a shiny apple that is rotten inside. The outside looks perfect, but that is not what feeds you.
Mool na boojheh aapnaa: they do not understand their own mool, their roots, where they truly come from. The verse uses strong words here, calling them thieves and animals. It is a wake-up call about the behavior, meant to help us remember where we come from.
Have you seen someone look good on the outside but act unkind?
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