Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those taken in by craving, anger, greed and attachment keep wandering, life after life.
By loving devotion and remembrance of the One, the wandering finally ends.
The verse traces the cost of the diseases — the four classic compulsions (craving, anger, greed, attachment) keep a person "wandering," unsettled, never arriving. "Reincarnation forever" can be heard as the endless recycling of the same unmet patterns, a life going in circles. And the exit is not willpower against each compulsion but "loving devotional worship" — a love strong enough to still the wandering. When the heart finds its home, the restless circling stops.
What pattern do you keep circling back to? Might a deeper love, more than force, be what settles it?
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