Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
This mind lives with those who will not listen to what they are told, and who will not own up to what they have taken in.
Nanak prays, the servant of the One's servants: one moment the mind is huge, and the next moment it is tiny.
A restless mind that will not listen keeps swinging between feeling huge and feeling tiny.
The ending names the problem the riddles were pointing to all along. This mind does not listen. It is never satisfied with what it is given. So it swings back and forth: khin tolaa khin maasaa. One moment it feels as heavy as a big weight, tolaa. The next it feels as light as a tiny one, maasaa.
You may know this feeling. You win a game and feel like a giant. Then someone teases you and you feel very small. Nanak calls himself the servant of the One's servants. He shows us the fix by contrast: the steady, forgiving heart from the verse before. A mind that rests in the One stops swinging so wildly.
Have you ever felt very big and sure one minute, then very small the next? What steadies you?
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