Hear the Right Words and Still Wander Without Self-Knowledge
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You can hear the scriptures read out and still not understand, and so keep wandering from door to door.
It's a kind of foolishness to not know your own self and to never let love for the true One take root.
The verse names the deepest gap: hearing without understanding, which leaves a person "wandering from door to door" — the same restless search P2 promised to end. And it locates the root: not knowing your own self. The "fool" here is anyone who studies everything except the one thing — themselves — and so never lets love take root. This is the raag reaching its recurring floor: self-knowledge and love, beneath all the reading.
What would it mean to 'know your own self' a little more honestly than you do right now?
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