Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**L** — people get wrapped up in thrills that don't nourish them, and a little dizzy on the wine of "I'm so clever" and the dazzle of the world.
Inside that dazzle, we come and we go, caught in the churn. Everything moves the way the flow of existence moves it. And here's a leveling truth: no one is completely perfect, and no one is completely broken. No one is only wise, and no one is only a fool. Wherever the One draws you, that's where you find yourself.
And the One itself stays forever free — untangled, at ease, above the churn.
The letter Lala (L) in its full Pauri, and one of the bani's most quietly humane. The opening warns of bikhai ras (thrills that don't nourish) and ahan-budh maya mad — being "drunk" on ego-cleverness. But the heart of it is a radical equalizer: ko-oo oon na ko-oo pooraa, ko-oo sughar na ko-oo mooraa — "no one is imperfect and no one is perfect; no one is wise and no one is a fool." This dissolves the whole ranking of people that ego loves. In a caste-bound society this was a leveling claim: you cannot sort human beings into better and worse. Everyone moves as the flow (hukam) moves them. And the One remains alipanaa — untouched, forever at ease, sahaj itself. The teaching gently pulls the ground out from under both self-superiority and self-contempt.
How would you treat people differently if you truly believed no one is only wise and no one is only foolish?
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