ਮਾਰੂ ਮਹਲਾ ੧ ॥
maaroo mehlaa 1.
Maaroo, First Mehl:
ਮਿਲਿ ਮਾਤ ਪਿਤਾ ਪਿੰਡੁ ਕਮਾਇਆ ॥
mil maat pitaa pind kamaa-i-aa.
The union of the mother and father brings the body into being.
ਤਿਨਿ ਕਰਤੈ ਲੇਖੁ ਲਿਖਾਇਆ ॥
tin kartai laykh likhaa-i-aa.
The Creator inscribes upon it the inscription of its destiny.
ਲਿਖੁ ਦਾਤਿ ਜੋਤਿ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥
likh daat jot vadi-aa-ee.
According to this inscription, gifts, light and glorious greatness are received.
ਮਿਲਿ ਮਾਇਆ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਗਵਾਈ ॥੧॥
mil maa-i-aa surat gavaa-ee. ||1||
Joining with Maya, the spiritual consciousness is lost. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A mother and father together, and a new life begins, a body, a breath, a story.
Woven in from the start are gifts, an inner light, a quiet greatness.
But when I get tangled only in getting and having, I forget that light is even there.
You were born carrying a light; the work is remembering it is there.
Maya here is not evil matter but the pull to mistake the passing show for the whole of reality, and that pull can make us forget the jot, the inner light we were born carrying. The gift is there from birth; the forgetting is something to wake up from.
A Question to Sit With
What is a gift inside you that you sometimes forget you have?
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