Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind is fooled, tangled up in illusion.
Whatever I do while caught in greed only ties me down tighter.
Guru Tegh Bahadur, the Ninth Guru, brings his signature honesty to Jaitsree. He does not describe the enlightened state from above; he describes the struggle from inside it, as one of us. "My mind is deluded, entangled in Maya" — and the sharp observation that follows: whatever he does while driven by greed "only serves to bind me down." This is a crucial insight. Action taken from greed, even action meant to free you, just tightens the knot, because it is still greed acting. You cannot untangle a net by pulling harder in the same grasping way. The honesty of naming this — I am tangled, and my struggling makes it worse — is itself the first loosening.
Have you ever tried to fix a problem in a way that only made it worse? What might a different approach be?
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