You Don't Out-Run Craving; You Sing and It Loses Its Rope
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
From the start, through the middle, to the end, dreadful cravings hound a person.
Through the teaching's wisdom we sing the One's praises, and the grip of death is cut loose.
The verse names how relentless craving is — it "hounds" a person "in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end," across the whole of life. This is honest about how persistent the pull is; it does not pretend the disease is mild. But against the lifelong hound is set the teaching's wisdom and praise, which "cuts away the noose of death" — the deepest fear that craving feeds on. You do not out-run the hound; you sing, and the fear it chased you with loses its rope.
What craving has 'hounded' you a long time? What might loosen its grip better than fighting it head-on?
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