Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Saying "I, I, me, me," a person's wrongdoing only grows.
The world is drowning in attachment and greed. Craving and anger have taken control of the mind.
Not even in dreams does that person say the Naam of the One.
When "I and mine" runs the mind, wrongs pile up and the Naam is forgotten, even in dreams.
Ha-o ha-o karat: saying I, I, again and again. This is haumai (ego — the feeling of being a separate self), and it makes the tangles grow. Moh lobh: attachment and greed can drown a person. Kaam krodh: craving and anger take the reins. In Gurbani these are like an illness to be healed, an overgrowth of the separate self. The cure is remembering.
When the loud I, me, mine gets big inside you, what helps it quiet down?
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