Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O lovely, charming, wise and clever one:
you have been trapped by your own pride and clinging.
This is the "pause" line, the rahaa-o — the center of the shabad. It names the trap exactly.
Sohnee saroop sujaan bichkhan — beautiful, lovely, wise and clever. These are real gifts. But at garbai mohi faakee — you have been caught by great pride and by clinging. Clinging means holding on too tight to people and things. The very gifts that should help the soul have trapped it.
It is like a gifted player who stops passing the ball. The talent is still there, but now it works against the team. Talent without humility is not a treasure. It becomes a cage.
How can a strength — like being clever or charming — sometimes become a trap?
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