Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who have forgotten the Name are attached to the double — to the split between what they want and what is. They putrefy and die in this split, filled with the fire of desire.
Those who receive grace — who are held by something larger — find liberation. Not after death. Now. In this life.
The fire of desire is real — but it's a fire that burns the one carrying it.
"Putrefy and die" (sar sar gale) is visceral: the unaligned soul literally rots in its attachment, like something left out in the heat. This is not metaphor for punishment — it is description of what separation from one's own nature feels like from the inside.
The contrast: those who receive grace (prabh kirpaa) are liberated in this life. Jeevat mukti — liberation while alive — is a key concept in Gurbani and in the Vedanta tradition. Freedom is not deferred to after death.
Is there a desire you carry that consumes more energy than it's worth? What would it be like to put it down?
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