Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When my thinking goes crooked, it insists that there really are two. There is me over here, and everything else over there.
Living inside that split feeling keeps a person restless. They are always coming and going, never quite arriving home.
A mind that keeps splitting the world in two never feels at home.
Durmat is a bent mind, thinking that has gone crooked. It keeps saying there are two: me here, and everything else there.
Aavai jaa-ay mar doojaa ho-ay — the one who holds on to "two" comes and goes and dies. This is the old picture of being born again and again. Its heart is simple. Feeling separate makes you tired and restless.
Think of a kid who moves from room to room at a sleepover and cannot settle anywhere. Always coming and going, never quite arriving home. That is what living in the split feels like.
Can you notice a moment today when your mind split the world into “me” and “them”?
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