Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We all carry the ache of self-importance — it's like a low-grade illness of the heart.
Meeting real wisdom clears it, and the heart comes clean.
Keeping the good in mind, the old pains quietly fade on their own.
"This body is filled with disease; without the Shabad, the pain of the disease of ego does not depart." Ego (haumai) is named, as often in Gurbani, as a kind of illness we all carry — not a moral crime but a condition to be healed. Meeting wisdom, "his pains are automatically forgotten." For a child: self-importance is like a low-grade illness of the heart — and wisdom is the gentle medicine that clears it.
What gentle 'medicine' helps when your heart feels puffed-up or grabby?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI