Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
It's easy to get swept up chasing shiny, fleeting pleasures. Caught up in them, you lose sight of what matters — like walking through fog so thick you forget where you're going.
This one says it is easy to get so wrapped up in fun things that we stop seeing clearly.
This shabad is a gentle list of the things the ego says to itself. Haumai, the ego, is the "me-first" feeling. The Rahao, the "pause" line at the center of the shabad, comes next.
Rang sang bikhi-aa kay bhogaa — caught up in pleasures that do us harm. In sang anDh na jaanee — lost in them, the person cannot see, as if blind, and does not understand.
Think of walking through fog so thick you forget where you were going. The fog is the problem, not the person walking in it. That is the kind way to read this verse. It describes a state, not a bad person. It shows how anyone at all can lose their way.
When have you gotten so caught up in something fun that you forgot what really mattered?
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