The crazy ones are asleep, drunk on attachment, mistaking the dream for the real — the treasure of the Name right with them, yet unfound; only grace and the Sangat rouse them.
The Arc
The Pause (Pauri 0): the crazy ones are asleep. Pauri 1: intoxicated with attachment and pleasures, gripped by falsehood. Pauri 2: they call the dream-like delights true. Pauri 3: the Name's wealth is with them, but they find none of its mystery. Pauri 4: grace saves those who take to the Sangat.
Key Vocabulary
asleep / crazy: forgetting the One as sleep and madness (cf. Shabad 201)
intoxicated with attachment: pleasures as a sleeping-draught (cf. Shabad 164)
mistaking the dream for the real: the manmukh's core error (Sach)
the treasure unfound: the Name right with them, missed (cf. Shabad 113)
Themes and Cross-Connections
The sleep of forgetting joins Shabad 201 and Shabad 51; intoxication with attachment is Maya-as-wine (Shabad 164). Mistaking the dream for the real is Sach and the manmukh's confusion. The treasure "with them" but unfound is the treasure within sought outside (Shabad 113). Waking in the Sat Sangat by grace.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is a wake-up: the treasure is right with you, but you must be roused — in good company, by grace. The mood is blunt and then merciful.
The crazy ones are asleep, drunk on attachment, mistaking the dream for the real — the treasure of the Name right with them, yet unfound; only grace and the Sangat rouse them.
The Arc
The Pause (Pauri 0): the crazy ones are asleep. Pauri 1: intoxicated with attachment and pleasures, gripped by falsehood. Pauri 2: they call the dream-like delights true. Pauri 3: the Name's wealth is with them, but they find none of its mystery. Pauri 4: grace saves those who take to the Sangat.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The sleep of forgetting joins Shabad 201 and Shabad 51; intoxication with attachment is Maya-as-wine (Shabad 164). Mistaking the dream for the real is Sach and the manmukh's confusion. The treasure "with them" but unfound is the treasure within sought outside (Shabad 113). Waking in the Sat Sangat by grace.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is a wake-up: the treasure is right with you, but you must be roused — in good company, by grace. The mood is blunt and then merciful.