Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You smear ashes on your body and sit in a deep trance.
But the earrings you wear are "mine" and "yours."
You beg for bread, and you are never satisfied.
You leave your Master and beg from others. Shouldn't that make you ashamed?
Ashes, trance and earrings are worth little while the heart still holds on to "mine and yours."
The wandering yogi's outward marks are named one by one — bibhoot (ashes), taarhee (trance), mundraa (earrings) — and the earrings turn out to be made of "mine and yours." Naath chhod jaacheh — leaving the Master, he begs from others. The question is aimed at empty outward show, in any path, never at the person; it points back to the One who is already near.
Have you ever done something just for show that didn't help how you felt inside?
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