Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We often mistake passing, dream-like things for the most real and important things.
So true wisdom taught me a simple thing: do good — and my awakened heart gladly said yes.
Naam Dayv notes the common human mistake: false doubts and dream-objects — we believe them to be true. We treat the passing, dream-like things (worries, illusions, fleeting stuff) as if they were the most solid and important reality, and get lost in them. And then, beautifully, he names what wisdom actually asked of him — and it's refreshingly simple and practical: the Guru instructed me to do good deeds, and my awakened mind accepted this. After all the grand vision of the One in everything, the 'assignment' is just: do good. The deepest non-dual philosophy comes home to the simplest ethics — see the One in all, and therefore be kind, do good. For a child, this is the perfect grounding: the big beautiful truth (all is One) leads straight to a small clear action (do good), and an awake heart happily agrees.
If everything is connected as one, how does that lead naturally to being kind and doing good?
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