Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have not really learned the quiet art of remembering the One, and so I have handed myself over to the endless wanting of things.
Tangled up in what pulls me this way and that, I set down a treasure and forgot I was even holding it.
That treasure is the Name, the living presence of the One. It is still here. I only have to pick it up again.
raam bhajan kee gat nahee jaanee — the way of remembrance not known; maa-i-aa haath bikaanaa — sold into Maya's hand; naam ratan bisraanaa — the jewel of the Naam forgotten. Naam here is the priceless thing set down amid distraction; the remedy is simply to remember. Bauraa ('madman') softened; entanglement is a confusion to wake from, not a sin to punish.
What is something valuable you sometimes forget you already have?
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