Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The good is the highest of all — how do I get close to it? By being led there gently.
Once united, I keep it clasped close to my heart, seeing it with new eyes.
The flimsy 'cloak' of shiny things makes us slip — but a 'cloak' dyed in love is the one that satisfies.
A lovely image: two cloaks (cholaa, a robe you wear). "The cloak of Maya's love is false; wearing it, one slips and loses his footing" — dressing yourself in grabbing and pretending makes you unsteady. "That cloak is true which is dyed in the color of the Love of my Beloved; wearing it, my inner thirst is quenched." What you 'clothe' yourself in — grabbing, or love — determines whether you're steady and satisfied. For a child: what you wrap yourself in matters — a covering of grabbing makes you slip, but a covering of love keeps you steady and satisfied.
If you could wear a 'cloak' made of a good quality, what would it be made of?
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