Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Into every home it slips a sense of mine and yours — between parents and children, friends and brothers and sisters.
One has a little more, one a little less, and so people quarrel and pull apart, forgetting they were ever one.
Comparing who has more can pull a family apart, even though we are all one.
Un ghar ghar mayli-o doo-aa — into every home it has planted doo-aa, a feeling of two-ness. That means seeing "mine" and "yours" where there is really one. From that little seed of comparing, who has more and who has less, quarrels grow.
You might know it from siblings arguing over who got the bigger slice of cake. It is sad, and very familiar. Families are divided by the very idea of being separate. Ik Onkar, "there is One," is what dissolves that idea.
When a small disagreement grows, is it often about who has more or less?
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