Kabir mann pankhi bheyo udh udh deh diss jaaye – Shalok Bhagat Kabeer Ji – Ang 1369

SGGS Angg 1369

Shalok Bhagat Kabeer Jeo – Slok no 86, Bhagat Kabir Ji.

Bhagat Ji tells us the mind is like a bird, and takes flight very often in all ten directions; wherever it lands, it absorbs the influence of the company it keeps, and it later has to eat the fruit of such association.

“Kabir mann pankhi bheyo udh udh deh diss jaaye; jo jaisee sangat milhe so taiso falh khaaye.”

What Kabir Ji says is so important and true. If you keep company of card sharps, tricksters, and pickpockets, although you may restrain yourself from picking up their evil ways, their conduct gets imprinted in the mind. Sooner or later, what the mind has learned and stored, will surface in some form.

Thus the Gurus and the Bhagats have stressed repeatedly, that Sadhsangat is the best company to keep. As you do Sadhsangat, you absorb Naam (Attributes of God), and your evil propensities subtly get eroded. The fruit of Amrit Naam is eternally sweet.

Shabad Viakhya by Bhai Manjeet Singh Ji

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