Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every mood and quality that moves through us — busy energy, heavy tiredness, calm brightness — rises and fades like weather. None of it stays.
In fact, everything you can see with your eyes is on its way to changing. Only the deep truth, the thing beneath all the changing, cannot be broken. That is what to hold on to.
Even the calmest mood passes. The word of the holy goes deeper than all of them.
Raaj binaasee taam binaasee saatak bhee — busy energy, heavy dullness, and even calm light all pass. These three are the gunas, which in Indian thought make up all changing nature. Even the peaceful one is weather.
Daristimaan hai sagal binaasee — everything that can be seen will pass. Ik saaDh bachan aagaaDhaa — only the word of the holy is beyond reach of ending. Think of clouds moving across the sky. Sunny, stormy, grey, they all drift by. The sky behind them stays.
When a strong feeling passes through you, what stays steady underneath it?
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