In the month of Kattak (mid-October to mid-November), the weather becomes cold. But the seeker remains miserable without IkOankar (the Divine). In the very beginning of the first stanza of this composition, the
Guru says that the bad deeds performed by the being are the cause for feeling separated from IkOankar. In this month, the Guru again describes that the being must bear the consequences of their deeds. The worldly pleasures for which the being forgets IkOankar cause only misery in the end. However, the suffering of those seekers who feel the presence of IkOankar vanishes.
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