Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
All these busy tangles spread out from the world's poison pull.
How rare is the one who takes the Naam as their support.
Life's busy tangles grow from chasing the world; rare is the one who rests on the Naam.
This is the pause line, the rahaa-o, the center of the shabad.
Bikhi-aa literally means poison. Here it means maa-i-aa, the pull of the world. It is the chasing after things that never quite satisfy. All our dhandh, our busy tangles, spread out from that chasing.
Think of scrolling a video app. One more video, then one more. An hour goes by, and you don't feel any fuller.
Virlai keeno naam adhaar — rare is the one who makes the Naam their support. Adhaar means the thing everything rests on. In the middle of all that rushing, the Naam is the still center. The whole shabad points to it.
What is something you chase that never quite fills you up?
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