Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A burning thirst for things drives people to dress up in all kinds of holy costumes.
The ache of all that grasping wrecks the body's peace; lust and anger quietly rob the treasure inside you.
But let go of the sense that you are separate, and the Name sets you free.
Religious robes worn out of "thirst for Maya" are exposed as costume — outward holiness masking inward greed. Meanwhile kaam and krodh (lust and anger, two of the Panch Vikaar) "steal the wealth of the self within". The cure is not a better costume but "abandoning duality" — dropping the separateness that fuels the grasping in the first place.
What "costume" do people sometimes wear to look good while something else is going on inside?
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