Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Here is the practice actually worth doing: the quiet one that grows real peace inside you, where you look gently into your own soul.
You can recite every holy book out loud and perfectly, but if it stays only on the lips, it is just motion; the cloudiness inside does not clear by putting on a show.
Pretending is a trap you weave for yourself, like a spider getting tangled in its own web. Better to be simply, honestly real.
sun pandit karmaa kaaree — addressed to the ritual-performing Pandit; the Rahau: jit karam sukh oopjai... so aatam tat beechaaree — the true 'ritual' is contemplation of the soul's essence. pakhand mail na chook-ee — hypocrisy does not cleanse; the mail (not-cleanness) is inner. maakuree — the spider tangled in its own web, a gentle image of self-made traps. The critique is of formalism, not of the Pandit as a person or of scripture itself.
What is one honest thing you could look at inside yourself today?
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