Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In this world, the Great Giver is the Life of the World. But the manmukhs have lost their honor.
Without the True Guru, no one knows the Way. The blind find no place of rest.
If the Lord who gives Peace does not dwell within the mind — they shall depart with regret in the end.
Ih jag jeevan daataa sab ka-aa, manmukh gaa-vat bharam — in this world (called "the world of the Father's home"), the Great Giver is the Life of all — and yet the manmukhs gaa-vat bharam (lose themselves in error, waste themselves in wandering). Not that the Giver is absent: the Giver is the Life of everything. The manmukhs simply don't turn toward what is already present.
Bin satgur ko-ee naahi jaanai, andhay ghar nahin thram — without the True Guru, no one knows the Way; the blind (andha) find no place of rest (ghar nahin thram — no home, no stability). The blindness is not physical — it is the blindness of operating without the Guru's orientation. The blind person wanders, not because there is no destination but because they cannot see the way. The Guru gives sight: not new information about where to go but the restored ability to see what was always there.
Sukhdaataa man na vasai, paachhutaa-vai ant — if the Giver of Peace (sukhdaataa) does not dwell within the mind, they depart with regret (paachhutaa-vai — repentance, regret) in the end. The final image: the deathbed of the one who lived without the Guru's orientation — who had everything except the thing that would have made it matter. They leave with regret. Not punishment inflicted from outside but the natural result of a life that missed its point.
Is there something you know you need to find but haven't yet found — and what is keeping you from looking for it more seriously?
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