Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Even the greatest can be tripped up by pride. Old stories tell of the creator-god Brahma, so puffed up he lost sight of what mattered, and only understood once things went wrong. But whenever a heart turns and remembers the One, that heart is quieted and made whole again.
The comp opens a long litany of proud figures from myth, each a mirror for garab (pride/ego). Brahma’s pride and the “downfall of the Vedas” is a Puranic story; we keep it as a gentle parable — even a creator-god can be blinded by pride — and land on the hopeful turn: jah prabh simray tahee man maani-aa, wherever the One is remembered, the mind is settled. These figures are examples, never targets of contempt.
When has being sure you were right kept you from seeing something important?
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