Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We're each given our work, and the pull of shiny things is made to feel sweet along the way.
So we eat, we drink, we live — and the steady thing is to take whatever comes with an even heart.
The letter Lalla is quietly grown-up wisdom. The One assigned people their tasks and made the love of Maya seem sweet — meaning the pull toward pleasant things is real and even built-in; it's not a personal weakness to feel it. The counsel isn't to reject life's ordinary pleasures — khaavai peevai — we eat and drink, fully human — but to hold them with an even heart: bhaanai... sahnaa, meeting whatever comes, sweet or hard, with the same steadiness. Enjoy the good, endure the hard, and don't let either one run away with you.
What helps you enjoy good things without needing to cling to them?
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