Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Day nine. When a person turns away from keeping the One in mind, their days start to go crooked. They act against their own good, and never pause to hear even a moment of the One's praise.
Grabbing at what belongs to others to fill an endless hunger, they find the wanting never cools and the thirst never quenches. This is what that road leads to.
Forgetting the One, life gets stuck in the same weary loop over and over. Which is exactly why turning back matters so much.
Naumee is the ninth day, echoing navay chhidar — the "nine openings" of the body. The source is one of the poem's sharpest verses — naming adultery, slander of the holy, theft. The project handles it with care: rather than staging accusation or graphic wrong, it names the pattern — a life turned against its own good, a hunger and thirst that chasing can never satisfy (agan na nivrai, trisnaa na bujhaaee — "the fire isn't put out, the thirst isn't quenched"). The closing mar jameh abhaagay ("the unfortunate die to be born again") is softened to being "stuck in the same weary loop," keeping the truth of a mind trapped in repetition while dropping the fear-charge. The verse's real point is the ache of endless wanting — and that turning back is always possible.
Have you noticed that some kinds of wanting only grow the more you feed them?
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