ਮਿਥਿਆ ਤਨੁ ਸਾਚੋ ਕਰਿ ਮਾਨਿਓ ਇਹ ਬਿਧਿ ਆਪੁ ਬੰਧਾਵੈ ॥
mithi-aa tan saacho kar maani-o ih biDh aap banDhaavai.
You see this false body as true; in this way, you have placed yourself in bondage.
ਜਨ ਨਾਨਕ ਸੋਊ ਜਨੁ ਮੁਕਤਾ ਰਾਮ ਭਜਨ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਵੈ ॥੨॥੩॥
jan naanak so-oo jan muktaa raam bhajan chit laavai. ||2||3||
O servant Nanak, he is a liberated being, whose consciousness lovingly vibrates, and meditates on the Lord. ||2||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you treat this passing body as if it were the whole truth, you tie yourself up in your own knots.
Servant Nanak says: the free person is the one whose heart keeps turning, again and again, toward the One.
Freedom is a heart that keeps turning back toward what is real.
Muktaa — the free one — is defined here very simply: the person whose chit, whose attention, keeps turning toward the One. Bondage is treating the passing as permanent; freedom is remembering what is real.
A Question to Sit With
What is something true and steady that you can keep turning your attention back to?
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