Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
As long as I kept saying "mine, mine," I was surrounded by what harms me. But when I offered my mind, my body, and my thinking to the One, I finally slept in deep, easy peace.
Ja-o la-o mayro mayro karto — "as long as I made 'mine, mine.'" This is haumai, the grasping sense of a separate, owning self, pictured as the very thing that surrounds a person with bikh (harm). The turn comes with arpee — offering, dedicating: giving the whole self (mind, body, intellect) to the One. The result is sahj so-ay, "sleeping in ease" — the deep rest of someone no longer clenched around ownership. Letting go of "mine" is what lets the heart finally rest.
What is something you cling to as "mine" that might feel lighter if you held it more loosely?
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