Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The followers of the six different life-styles and world-views, the Yogis and the Sanyaasees have gone astray in doubt without the Guru.
If they serve the True Guru, they find salvation. They enshrine the Dear Lord within their minds.
They focus their consciousness on the True Bani. Their comings and goings in reincarnation are over.
This line says: people on every kind of spiritual path can still get lost without the Guru. Serving the Guru brings them home.
Khat darsan: the six darsan, six great schools of Hindu thought, each with its own way of seeing life. Jogee: the Yogis. Sani-aasee: those who leave home and family to follow God. Bin gur bharam bhulaa-ay: without the Guru, they wander lost in bharam, doubt.
This takes in nearly all the religious life of Guru Amar Das's India. These paths are not empty. They have deep thinking, careful rules and real practice. The point is only this: even with all that, without the Guru the search does not break through.
Satgur sayveh taa gat mit paavahi: if they serve the True Guru, they reach gat, the highest state, the freedom they were looking for. Har jee-o man vasaa-ay: the Dear Lord comes to live in their minds. It is not a strange new road. It is the heart of their own search, finally reached.
Sachee banee si-o chit laagai: their attention is fixed on the True Bani, the Guru's Word. Aavan jaan rahaa-ay: their coming and going ends. That means the circle of being born and dying again and again is over.
Think of six friends each studying a different map of the same city. The maps are good. But a guide who has been there walks you right to the door.
Is there a philosophical or spiritual framework you've studied that you felt was pointing toward something real but never quite got you there — and what do you think was missing?
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