Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without letting go inside, how can anyone be a hermit who has let go?
Without giving up "me and mine," how can anyone be someone who has given things up?
Without taming the five thieves inside, how can the mind be brought to rest?
Without the Naam, a person keeps on regretting, forever and ever.
Letting go happens inside, by giving up "me and mine" and taming the pulls within.
Bin bairaag kahaa bairaagee: without detachment, how can anyone be a hermit? Ha-o ti-aag is giving up ego (haumai — the feeling of being a separate self). The letting-go that counts happens inside, whatever robe a person wears. The panch are the five thieves, the inner pulls: desire, anger, greed, clinging and pride. Sad sad hee jhooray: without the Naam, the regret goes on and on.
What is one thing you are holding a little too tightly right now?
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