Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is one thing that keeps a heart from meeting the One: the ego (haumai — the feeling of being a separate, cut-off self). It is like a poison to be healed.
This bright, golden gift of a body loses its shine when ego takes it over, and clinging to things that don't last is like sitting in the dark.
But the heart turned toward the Teacher is lifted free — through the Word, the grip of ego simply lets go.
ha-umai bikhi-aa — ego treated as bikhi-aa, a poison to be healed, never as a thing to hate. deh kanchan, the golden body: precious, dimmed by ego rather than destroyed. The harsher ruined-and-disfigured language is softened; the teaching is that ego dims what is precious, and the Word restores it. Ego as a disease to heal is the project's steady lens.
What helps you let go when you are stuck feeling separate or self-centered?
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