Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Getting swept up only in grabbing and clinging can pull a whole family off-balance.
It's a very human tangle — but no one is stuck in it forever.
The One who made everything watches over it all with care.
The verse names how attachment ("emotional attachment to Maya") can entangle everyone — "mother and father, all are subject to this love." The qMonk voice keeps this as a universal human tangle, not a shaming, and softens "blind manmukh consumed by burning rage" to the restlessness of a heart with no peace. The steadying note: "the One who created the Universe beholds it" — it's all watched over with care. For a child: getting swept up only in grabbing can tangle a whole family, but it's a common human thing, and no one is stuck forever.
How does one person's grabbiness affect a whole family — and how does one person's calm help?
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