ਸਲੋਕ ਮਃ ੧ ॥

salok mahalaa 1 |

Salok, First Mehl:

ਲਖ ਸਿਉ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਹੋਵੈ ਲਖ ਜੀਵਣੁ ਕਿਆ ਖੁਸੀਆ ਕਿਆ ਚਾਉ ॥

lakh siau preet hovai lakh jeevan kiaa khuseea kiaa chaau |

You may be in love with tens of thousands, and live for thousands of years; but what good are these pleasures and occupations?

ਵਿਛੁੜਿਆ ਵਿਸੁ ਹੋਇ ਵਿਛੋੜਾ ਏਕ ਘੜੀ ਮਹਿ ਜਾਇ ॥

vichhurriaa vis hoe vichhorraa ek gharree meh jaae |

And when you must separate from them, that separation is like poison, but they will be gone in an instant.

ਜੇ ਸਉ ਵਰ੍ਹਿਆ ਮਿਠਾ ਖਾਜੈ ਭੀ ਫਿਰਿ ਕਉੜਾ ਖਾਇ ॥

je sau varhiaa mitthaa khaajai bhee fir kaurraa khaae |

You may eat sweets for a hundred years, but eventually, you will have to eat the bitter as well.

ਮਿਠਾ ਖਾਧਾ ਚਿਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਕਉੜਤਣੁ ਧਾਇ ਜਾਇ ॥

mitthaa khaadhaa chit na aavai kaurratan dhaae jaae |

Then, you will not remember eating the sweets; bitterness will permeate you.

ਮਿਠਾ ਕਉੜਾ ਦੋਵੈ ਰੋਗ ॥

mitthaa kaurraa dovai rog |

The sweet and the bitter are both diseases.

ਨਾਨਕ ਅੰਤਿ ਵਿਗੁਤੇ ਭੋਗ ॥

naanak ant vigute bhog |

O Nanak, eating them, you will come to ruin in the end.

ਝਖਿ ਝਖਿ ਝਖਣਾ ਝਗੜਾ ਝਾਖ ॥

jhakh jhakh jhakhanaa jhagarraa jhaakh |

It is useless to worry and struggle to death.

ਝਖਿ ਝਖਿ ਜਾਹਿ ਝਖਹਿ ਤਿਨੑ ਪਾਸਿ ॥੧॥

jhakh jhakh jaeh jhakheh tina paas |1|

Entangled in worries and struggles, people exhaust themselves. ||1||