Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
He draws us to His Touchstone, to test our love and consciousness.
The counterfeit have no place there, but the genuine are placed in His Treasury.
Let your hopes and anxieties depart. Thus pollution is washed away.
The touchstone test: a kasvaie (touchstone) was used in the marketplace to test whether metal was genuine gold or base metal. The divine draws all to the touchstone of testing. The counterfeit (khotar) — those whose devotion is performance — have no place in the Treasury. The genuine (sache) are placed there.
'Let your hopes and anxieties depart' — aasaa manaasaa (hope/desire and anxiety/worry) — the specific pair that pollutes. When both the craving-for-outcome and the fear-of-outcome are released, the pollution departs. The touchstone tests exactly this: does your devotion depend on the hoped-for outcome?
What would your spiritual practice look like without any hope of specific outcomes or any anxiety about whether it's working?
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