Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I looked, I saw everyone caught by attachment; so I hurried to the teacher's shelter.
By grace the teacher put me to the One's service, and then death's shadow stopped chasing me.
The seeker looks around and sees "everyone enticed by emotional attachment" — the whole world caught in the same net of moha (clinging). This is not contempt; it is the sobering recognition that the trap is universal, which is exactly what sends him "hurrying to the Guru's Sanctuary." And the beautiful result: put to the One's service, "the Messenger of Death gave up pursuing me." The fear of death — that shadow always at your back — stops chasing, because the one absorbed in service has already loosened the grip on the self that death threatens (jeevat marnaa). What death hunts is the clinging self; give that to service, and death has nothing left to chase.
Why might being absorbed in serving something bigger than yourself make you less afraid?
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