Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When endless wanting rules the heart, a person can have so much and still reach for what isn't theirs.
They can no longer feel the difference between what helps and what harms.
Runaway wanting does more than make us unhappy. It blurs our sense of right and wrong.
The verse gives a grown-up example: someone who already has so much at home, yet goes after what belongs to another household. Par garih bikaaree means doing wrong in another's home. The deeper teaching is about trisnaa, craving, eating away at good judgment itself.
Buraa bhalaa nahee sujhee hay — good and bad are no longer clear. When craving takes the steering wheel, the inner compass starts to spin. The point is not to shame anyone. It is to show how unchecked wanting quietly takes away a person's ability to see straight.
The cure, which comes later in the shabad, is not willpower. It is grace.
Can you think of a time wanting something so badly made it hard to think clearly?
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