Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
So much of the world gets tangled up in what pulls it off course. Whole families are swept along together.
When everyone around us drifts, it is easy to drift too.
Bikhi-aa bi-aapi-aa sagal sansaar — the whole world is caught in bikhi-aa. The word means poison. Here it means whatever pulls us off course and away from the One. Bikhi-aa lai doobee parvaar — it has pulled whole families under.
Think of friends swimming in a river. No one notices the current, and together they drift far downstream. Kabir describes the drift. He is not condemning people. And this picture sets up the rescue that comes next.
When has it been hard to do the right thing because everyone around you was going a different way?
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