Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You sing in so many tunes and harmonies, you talk and talk — but this mind of yours is only playing a game.
You work the well and water the fields — but the oxen have already wandered off to graze in the jungle.
A devastating farming image: you irrigate the field, but "the oxen have already left to graze in the jungle." All the careful work — the singing, the talking, the watering — is wasted because the mind (the ox that should be pulling the plough) has wandered off. Effort without the mind present is labor poured onto an unworked field (cf. Shabad 44, the heart-as-farm).
When has your body been busy at something while your mind was somewhere else entirely?
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