Let the Fever of Grabbing Cool and the Light Shines
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**J** — imagine letting the grip of your old cravings burn away while you're fully alive, so they no longer run you.
When the restless heat of wanting cools — the itch to grab more for yourself, and the envy of what others have — something clears inside. And in that cleared space, a steady inner Light shines through. Let go of the clutching, and you find the glow that was waiting underneath.
The letter Jajja. The verb jaraavai / jaar means to burn away — but the target is not the body or the self; it is joban here as youthful craving, and as jar par jar — desire for one's own wealth and for others' (envy). Kabir's “burning while alive” is a vivid image for releasing compulsion now, not renouncing life. When the fever of grasping and comparing settles, jot ujaara-o — the inner Light — becomes visible. Read in this project's lens: this is the ego's feverish wanting cooling into ease (sahaj), letting the light that was always there come through. Nothing punishing — a clearing.
When you stop comparing what you have to what others have, how does that feel inside?
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