Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Without the teaching, the whole world can feel a little lost and spinning, chasing shadows.
The pull of appearances — Maya, the shimmer of things that look solid but keep shifting — tugs us this way and that, and the ego ties us up in knots.
But the knots are only knots — they can always be untied.
Maya is glossed here as the shimmer of appearances: things that look solid but keep sliding away. Ha-umai bandhan is the ego tying us in knots. The literal's heavy closing — birth and death hanging overhead, being “reborn from the womb” in pain — is dropped entirely per the wellbeing rules; the teaching (the ego binds) is kept and bent firmly toward hope with a line the child can hold: knots are only knots, and they can always be untied.
What's a worry that felt like a tight knot until something helped it loosen?
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