ਰੇ ਮਨ ਕਿਆ ਕਰਹਿ ਹੈ ਹਾ ਹਾ ॥
ray man ki-aa karahi hai haa haa.
O mind, why do you burst out laughing?
ਦ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਦੇਖੁ ਜੈਸੇ ਹਰਿਚੰਦਉਰੀ ਇਕੁ ਰਾਮ ਭਜਨੁ ਲੈ ਲਾਹਾ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
darisat daykh jaisay harichand-uree ik raam bhajan lai laahaa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
See with your eyes, that these things are only mirages. So earn the profit of meditation on the One Lord. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O mind, why do you burst out laughing?
See with your eyes that these things are only mirages — so earn the profit of meditation on the One.
What the careless mind laughs and delights in is a mirage — the only real profit is the One.
The Pause shakes the careless mind: "why are you so carelessly laughing?" The things it delights in are "mirages" — they shimmer like water in the desert and vanish when you reach them. The only real profit is meditation on the One.
A Question to Sit With
What have you chased that turned out to be a mirage?
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