Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Even the noisy inner troublemakers finally run out of steam and wander off.
The restless, powerful mind that pulled all the strings grows tired at last.
Kabir notes something almost wry: at the end, even the five enemies (the grasping, angry, greedy passions) and the restless elephant-mind that ran the whole show grow weary and wander away. All that inner noise and striving — the very things that troubled a whole life — finally just run out of steam. There's a quiet lesson tucked in here: the passions that felt so powerful and permanent were never as solid as they seemed; they tire out. And it points toward the shabad's hopeful close — if the grasping mind can be quieted at the end by exhaustion, how much better to quiet it now, by love, and be free while you're fully alive. You don't have to wait for the strings to go slack.
Does it help to remember that even your strongest worried or angry feelings will pass and tire out?
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