Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Living only for the things that glitter can slowly unsettle a home.
Feeling cut off and separate has pulled many people apart from one another.
With the True Guru, love wells up inside; and a soul filled with that love is finally, deeply content.
Chasing only shiny things can pull people apart, but loving the One fills the soul.
Maa-i-aa is the pull of things, money and show. The verse calls it bhu-i-angam, a poisonous snake that lives right beside us. Dubidhaa means feeling split in two, cut off from the One and from each other. It has ghar bahutay gaalay, broken many homes.
Without the True Guru, love does not grow. With bhagat, loving devotion, the soul is patee-aaraa, finally satisfied. Think of a family arguing over who gets the bigger room. Loving each other would fill them far more than any room could. Devotion is the cure for haumai, the lonely feeling of "only me."
What leaves you feeling full and content inside?
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