Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One who has made someone blind can make them see again.
They act only as they know, even if they are told a hundred times.
Where the precious thing is not seen, the puffed-up self takes over. Know this well.
Nanak asks: how can the buyer buy the precious thing, if they cannot recognize it?
Grace and stubbornness sit side by side. The One who dims a heart can give it sight again. Meanwhile the unseeing keep to the little they know, and where the precious thing is not seen, haumai, the feeling of being a separate self, rushes into the space where recognition is missing. You cannot buy what you cannot recognize.
What did you need to be able to see before you could want it?
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