Anchor the Restless Mind and Wanting Turns to Delight
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**M** — hold onto the source, the root of everything, and your restless mind grows calm and satisfied. When you're anchored there, the endless wanting quiets down.
Whoever comes to know this secret truly understands their own mind. So don't put it off — don't wait to bring your mind home to its source. Those who arrive there, who touch what is truly real, are soaked through with a deep, steady delight.
The letter Mamma. mool gahi-aa man maanai — grasping the mool (root, source, origin) the mind is satisfied, maanai — settles, accepts, comes into alignment. This is Mannai in action: not intellectual belief but the mind coming to rest in what is real. marmee ho-ay so man ka-o jaanai — one who knows the maram (the inner mystery) truly knows their own mind — self-knowledge and knowledge of the source are the same knowing. mat ko-ee man miltaa bilmaavai — let no one delay in uniting the mind with its root. magan bha-i-aa tay so sach paavai — those who become magan (absorbed, immersed in delight) attain sach, the Truth, the most real thing (see the project's note on Sach). The satisfaction here is not from getting what the mind wanted, but from the mind finding what it always was.
What helps your mind feel truly calm and settled — not distracted, not wanting anything, just at rest?
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