ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਬਾਧਾ ਸਰਪਨਿ ਖਾਧਾ ॥
durmat baaDhaa sarpan khaaDhaa.
Man is bound by evil-mindedness, and consumed by Maya, the serpent.
ਮਨਮੁਖਿ ਖੋਇਆ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਲਾਧਾ ॥
manmukh kho-i-aa gurmukh laaDhaa.
The self-willed manmukh loses, and the Gurmukh gains.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਅੰਧੇਰਾ ਜਾਇ ॥
satgur milai anDhayraa jaa-ay.
Meeting the True Guru, darkness is dispelled.
ਨਾਨਕ ਹਉਮੈ ਮੇਟਿ ਸਮਾਇ ॥੧੫॥
naanak ha-umai mayt samaa-ay. ||15||
O Nanak, eradicating egotism, one merges in the Lord. ||15||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A person is tied up by a crooked mind, and swallowed by the serpent of Maya.
The one who follows only their own mind loses; the one who faces the Guru gains.
Meeting the True Guru, the darkness goes.
Nanak says: wiping out ego, you merge into the One.
Meeting the Guru, the darkness lifts.
Meeting the Guru, the darkness lifts. Durmat is a mind bent the wrong way. Haumai, ego (the feeling of being a separate self), is the knot that keeps us tied; when it goes, the tying ends. Satgur milai andhayraa jaa-ay: meet the True Guru, and the dark goes.
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