Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In a flash you change costumes, like an actor on a stage, tangled up in clinging and wrongdoing.
You gaze here and there at the wide spread of Maya, the glittering world, and you are dizzy with wanting it.
Chasing every shiny thing turns a life into one costume change after another.
Vays karahi natoo-aa ji-o — changing costumes like a natua, a stage performer, who is a king one minute and a beggar the next. Moh is attachment, holding on too tight, and paap is wrongdoing. Maa-i-aa is the glittering, changing world of things. Magan bha-i-aa means absorbed, lost in it, like someone who forgets the time at the mall. The picture asks a quiet question: who are we under all the costumes?
When do you feel most like yourself, and not a costume?
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