Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
"What is the root, the source of everything? What teaching fits these times?
Who is your Guru? Whose disciple are you?
What is the wisdom that keeps you free of it all?
Listen to us, Nanak, you young boy.
Tell us what you think of what we have said.
How can the Word carry us across the frightening ocean of the world?"
The deepest questions are short ones: where does everything come from, and who is your Guru?
The Siddhas, the yogis in this conversation, ask their greatest question, kavan mool, what is the root of all, together with the personal one, tayraa kavan guroo, who is your Guru? They call Nanak baalay, young boy; he was young beside these old masters. The answer, the most quoted lines of Sidh Gosht, comes in the next verse.
Who or what has been your teacher so far?
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