Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Day two. Gently set aside a troubled, tangled mind, and keep serving the teaching day by day.
Then the jewel of the Name settles into your body and mind — especially as you loosen the grip of craving, anger, and greed, my friend. The heavy fear of endings fades, real life opens up, and your troubles quietly leave.
Let go of "me first," turn toward the One, and love fills the space where pride used to be. This is a bargain where you only gain and never lose, and you stand honored in the truest place.
The ones who gather the Name are the truly rich, the truly blessed. Standing or sitting, turn your heart toward the One, and love the good company. A tangled mind untangles itself when the Boundless settles into your thoughts.
Duteeaa is the second day, and the verse opens with duteeaa durmat — "second-day, crooked-mind" — a sound-play linking the day to durmat, the tangled or wrong-turned mind. This project renders durmat not as "evil-mindedness" (too condemning for a child) but as a mind that has gotten knotted and can be gently untied. The three named forces — kaam, krodh, lobh (craving, anger, greed) — are treated as things to loosen, not crimes. Maran mitai jeevan milai literally says "death is erased, life is found"; here it's softened to endings losing their weight and real life opening — the point is fuller aliveness now, not a threat about dying. Saach saah bhagvant ("the true banker is the blessed one") echoes the recurring wealth-that-lasts theme.
What is one knot in your own mind you'd like to gently untie?
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