Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The sun and the moon are just two lamps the One has lit. The same single light — the light that burns away the feeling of being separate — fills every world there is.
When you turn to face that light, you stay clean and clear, day and night. When you turn your back and follow only your own wanting, you walk into your own shadow and call the darkness real.
The sun and the moon are only two lamps. One Light fills every world.
Rav sas deepak jaa kay — the sun and moon are the One's lamps. Picture a huge house with two small night-lights. The real light is something much bigger. The verse calls that Light Muraar, the One who destroys the ego. Ego here means the feeling of being a separate "me," walled off from everyone.
Then comes a picture of two directions. A Gurmukh is someone whose face is turned toward the Guru and the Light. A manmukh is someone turned toward their own wanting. These are not two kinds of people. They are two ways any of us can turn, at any moment.
The Gurmukh stays nirmal, clean and clear, day and night. That clearness does not come from scrubbing. It comes from which way you face. Face a lamp and your face is bright. Turn your back on it and you stand in your own shadow, the night the verse speaks of.
When have you noticed that turning toward something good made a worry's "darkness" simply have nowhere to stand?
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