Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who never receive the teaching's living sight are truly unlucky, worn down by time.
They live driven and unaware, tumbled again and again through the cycle — a hard, restless way to be.
The dark mirror, and it must be handled with care. The literal names "dogs, pigs and jackasses" and the "worst of murderers" — imagery this project consistently softens. The teaching underneath is not that some souls are vermin but that a life lived wholly "driven and unaware," cut off from wisdom, becomes restless and animal-like in its compulsions — tossed around by its own appetites. The remedy is the darshan, the living sight of the teaching, offered freely in P0–P2. Read as a description of a hard state, not a slur on any person.
When have you felt 'driven' by an appetite rather than choosing freely? What helped you settle?
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