Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without remembrance, a restless, frantic energy can take over, hard to calm.
Cut off from the One, wanting more and more can tangle us up until we can hardly move -- and remembrance is what loosens the knots.
Greed ties us in knots, and remembrance loosens them.
Bin simran kookar harkaa-i-aa — without remembrance, a person is like a mad dog. The verse means a frantic, restless energy that is hard to calm. Saakat lobhee bandh na paa-i-aa — the greedy one, cut off from the One, gets tangled up. Lobh is greed, always wanting more.
Greed is like a necklace chain in your pocket. The more you move, the more it knots. It is something anyone can recognize: restlessness, and the trap of "more."
Remembrance is the loosening, the calm. Greed and ego are things to heal, not crimes to condemn.
When wanting 'more and more' takes over, does it ever feel like being tied in knots?
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