ਦੂਜੈ ਭਾਇ ਨ ਸੇਵਿਆ ਜਾਇ ॥
doojai bhaa-ay na sayvi-aa jaa-ay.
In the love of duality, no one can serve the Lord.
ਹਉਮੈ ਮਾਇਆ ਮਹਾ ਬਿਖੁ ਖਾਇ ॥
ha-umai maa-i-aa mahaa bikh khaa-ay.
In egotism and Maya, they are eating toxic poison.
ਪੁਤਿ ਕੁਟੰਬਿ ਗ੍ਰਿਹਿ ਮੋਹਿਆ ਮਾਇ ॥
put kutamb garihi mohi-aa maa-ay.
They are emotionally attached to their children, family and home.
ਮਨਮੁਖਿ ਅੰਧਾ ਆਵੈ ਜਾਇ ॥੩॥
manmukh anDhaa aavai jaa-ay. ||3||
The blind, self-willed manmukhs come and go in reincarnation. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
As long as you love division, you cannot really serve the One. Lost in ego and the world's glitter, you are swallowing poison. Clinging to children, family, and home as if they were everything, the self-facing keep coming and going.
Clinging to even good things as if they were everything is a slow poison.
The dark mirror: duality makes service impossible; ego and Maya are poison eaten daily (cf. the poison-jar elsewhere). The verse names attachment to children, family and home as moha; in this tradition the bind is read as clinging to them as ultimate rather than family itself.
A Question to Sit With
What good thing in your life could become a trap if you clung to it too tightly?
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