Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Meeting real wisdom, the puffed-up feeling melts, and what's true comes to live inside.
Then a person starts living truthfully, resting in truth, and feeling at home in it.
The shabad closes on the cure and its fruit: "meeting the True Guru, egotism is eliminated, and the True Lord comes to dwell." Once ego melts, one "starts practicing truth, abides in truth, and by serving the True One gets absorbed in Him." The colophon (||4||9||12||) marks the close of this run of Mehl 3 shabads. The whole shabad's arc: ego is the one thing that crowds out the good — and meeting wisdom is what melts it. For a child: when the puffed-up feeling softens, there's suddenly room for what's true and good to move in.
When you let go of needing to be first or best, what good things have room to grow?
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