Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I decide someone else is bad, the whole world seems to set traps for me -- I start seeing enemies everywhere.
But when I drop 'mine' and 'yours,' when I stop dividing the world into my side and your side, then no one is my enemy at all.
This one says: see others as bad, and the whole world seems full of traps.
Jab kis ka-o ih jaanas mandaa — when a person decides someone is bad. Mandaa means bad. Tab saglay is mayleh fandaa — then everyone seems to lay traps for him. Fandaa means traps.
This is exactly how the mind works. A suspicious eye makes enemies out of thin air. Think of a day when you are sure a classmate is against you. Suddenly every whisper in the hall sounds like it is about you.
The way out is to let go of mayr tayr, "mine and yours." Mayr tayr jab ineh chukaa-ee — when he stops thinking in "mine and yours." That split is exactly what haumai, the ego, lives on. When the dividing stops, bairaa-ee, anger and hostility, has nothing left to feed on.
This is the teaching of Ik Onkar, the One that is everything, put into daily life. If there is only one reality, the walls between "us" and "them" are drawn on water.
How does your day change when you stop sorting people into your team and the other team?
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