Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Caught up in the fog of chasing shiny things, a person can forget the Giver who gave it all.
The One shaped the body and set the soul spinning with life — yet we sometimes act as if the power were all our own.
This one says the strength you run on was given to you. Maa-i-aa moh magan anDhi-aarai — lost in the darkness of love for Maya. Maya is the shiny, passing world: things, stuff, fame. The darkness here is simply forgetting. Wrapped up in Maya, we lose sight of the Giver behind the gifts.
Then the verse gently points out a mistake: bal apuno kar maanai. We think our strength is our own. But the One shaped our body and gave us life. It is like a phone that thinks it makes its own power. It forgets the charger it was plugged into all night.
This is not a crime. It is a forgetting. The whole shabad helps us remember the Source of the strength we run on.
What is something you can do well that you did not give yourself?
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