Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I forget the One and feel completely alone, life can feel like nothing but trouble.
But where the wonder of the One is being sung, there are millions of joys — more happiness than I could ever count.
Bipat (misfortune) and kot anand (millions of joys) are set side by side, and the pauri states the link directly: misfortune where remembrance is absent, countless joys where praise is sung. Alongside that, the inner-geography reading offered here is a pastoral one — not a claim that remembering makes hard things magically stop happening. A mind cut off from the larger reality experiences its troubles as total. A mind resting in remembrance finds joy uncountable, even in the same circumstances. The difference is where attention lives.
Have you noticed how the same day can feel completely different depending on where your attention is resting?
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