Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The sight of you bears fruit, dear One; your lotus feet are beautiful beyond compare!
Again and again I bow low, offering my very mind to you like incense.
The devotion here turns to beauty — "Your lotus feet are incomparably beautiful" — the same enchantment-by-loveliness that runs through Devgandhaari. And a striking image of offering: "offering my mind as incense." Incense is burned — it gives itself up entirely, turning to fragrance as it goes. To offer the mind "as incense" is to let the anxious, self-referring mind be consumed in devotion, rising as something sweeter. This is a lovely picture of what worship does to the ego: it doesn't preserve the fretful mind intact but lets it burn away into fragrance, into praise, into something offered up and gladly gone.
What would it mean to let your worried, self-focused thoughts 'burn away' into something sweeter, like incense turning to fragrance?
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