Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let your mind be the churning-handles, and churn steadily, without dozing off.
Say the Name with your tongue, and the curd churns into butter — this is how the nectar is gathered.
Now comes the churning.
Ih man eetee — make your mind the handles of the churn. Naytara-o need na aavai — churn without dozing off. Churning takes steady, wide-awake effort. If you nap at the churn, no butter comes.
The steady work is remembering. Rasnaa naam japahu — say the Name with your tongue. Then the curd churns, and amrit, the sweet nectar, rises like butter.
Think of practicing an instrument a little every day. Skip it or doze through it, and nothing grows. Keep at it, and music comes. Staying awake and remembering steadily is what brings the nectar out of the ordinary milk of life.
Where in your inner life do you need to keep 'churning without dozing' — steady and awake?
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