Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If you are not dyed in the One's love, not filled with its sweetness,
then without the Guru's Word you burn in your own inner fire.
You keep no discipline of the body, and you do not speak the Word.
You do not master the breath, and you do not worship the True One.
But whoever speaks the story that cannot be told, and stays balanced,
Nanak says, finds the One, the Soul of all.
Without love and the Word, you burn in your own fire; balance and the Word bring you to the Soul of all.
The yogis prized discipline of the body and mastery of the breath. Here the person has neither the yogi's disciplines nor love of the Word, and burns inside. The way through is akath kathaa, speaking what cannot be spoken, and sam kar rahai, staying balanced. The turn is gentle and aimed at the heart, never at the yogis themselves.
Have you ever worked hard at something and missed the point of it?
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