ਕਹੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਜਿਸੁ ਮਸਤਕਿ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਤਿਸੁ ਗੁਰ ਮਿਲਿ ਰੋਗ ਬਿਦਾਰੀ ॥੫॥੧੭॥੨੮॥
kaho naanak jis mastak likhi-aa tis gur mil rog bidaaree. ||5||17||28||
Says Nanak, one who has such pre-ordained destiny inscribed upon his forehead, meets with the Guru, and his diseases are cured. ||5||17||28||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the time is right in a life, a person meets the teaching — and the old sickness of ego is quietly healed.
Some healing cannot be rushed — but it does come.
The closing — jis mastak likhi-aa tis gur mil rog bidaaree — says the meeting with the guide, and the healing of the rog (the disease of ego), come when the moment is ripe. "Written on the forehead" is the old language of destiny; read gently, it means this healing is not forced or rushed but arrives in its own time. And the last word is rog bidaaree — the sickness cured. The whole shabad, which began by asking for a method, ends in being made well.
A Question to Sit With
Has something in you healed slowly, in its own time, when you stopped forcing it?
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