Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The man who cannot see leaves the wife of his own home
and runs after another woman.
He is like the parrot, so happy to see the bright simbal tree,
but in the end it dies there, stuck to it.
Chasing what glitters means turning away from what is already yours, and it can trap you.
Ghar kee naar ti-aagai andhaa: the blind one leaves the wife of his own home. Par naaree si-o ghaalai dhandhaa: and runs after another woman. Turning from the people who love you at home to chase someone new is the first picture.
The second is the simbal, a silk-cotton tree with big red flowers. The parrot flies to it sure of fruit, finds only dry fluff, and in the old image dies there, stuck to the tree. Think of a fish that grabs a shiny lure: it looked like food.
What is something that looked great but turned out to be empty?
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