ਕਬਹੂ ਨ ਸਮਝੈ ਅਗਿਆਨੁ ਗਵਾਰਾ ॥
kabhoo na samjhai agi-aan gavaaraa.
The ignorant clown will never understand.
ਬਹੁਰਿ ਬਹੁਰਿ ਲਪਟਿਓ ਜੰਜਾਰਾ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
bahur bahur lapti-o janjaaraa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Again and again, he becomes engrossed in entanglements. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is a part of the mind that just will not learn — not yet.
Over and over, it wraps itself back up in the same tangles it just escaped.
The same tangle keeps catching us until we finally learn to see it.
A second Rahao refrain within this long shabad. kabhoo na samjhai agi-aan gavaaraa — softened from harsher wording; the point is bahur bahur lapti-o janjaaraa, the repeating loop of getting re-tangled. The compassion is that this is a stage, not a sentence — the mind can still wake.
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