Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O my aloof heart — who exactly are you keeping your distance from?
Those who sing of the One live in lasting joy. So drop the pretending; the One already knows you inside and out, and fills the water, the land, and the sky.
A gently teasing verse: O detached mind, to whom do you show your detachment? — poking at the person who acts cool, aloof, above it all. Real detachment isn't a pose of distance; it's renouncing hypocrisy (kapat), dropping the act — because the One knows everything anyway, so there's no one to perform for. And the reason to drop the pose is beautiful: the One you'd hold yourself apart from pervades water, land, and sky — there's nowhere it isn't, so keeping your distance is impossible and pretending is pointless. Better to just be real and sing.
When have you pretended not to care about something you actually cared about a lot?
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