Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What are the signs of the discarded soul-brides?
They miss their Husband Lord — and they wander around in dishonor.
Their clothes are filthy. They pass their life-night in agony.
Dhan kiv jaan-ee-ai, jo dhan kahur-i visaar-ee — how are the discarded soul-brides known? — those who have forgotten their Husband (kahur-i visaar-ee — forgotten the husband, the divine). The sign of the discarded bride is specific: she has forgotten. Not been abandoned — forgotten. The forgetting of the Lord is what creates the condition of abandonment.
Dukh laag-aa nit-praatee — pain (dukh) clings to her constantly (nit-praatee — every morning, perpetually). The "filthy clothes" are the filth of ego and untruth — the mael (dirt) of haumai that clings to the one who has forgotten the divine. In the wedding-dress metaphor: the bride who should be adorned for her Husband is instead unwashed, dishonored, wandering.
Raat-i gavaaii so-ay kai, dinas-u gavaaii khaat-ee — she wastes the night in sleep (so-ay kai) and the day in eating (khaat-ee). The soul that has no connection to the divine wastes the two available periods: the night (which could be for meditation, for inner work) and the day (which could be for service, for practice). Instead: sleep and food. Not wrong in themselves, but as the totality of a life — the squandering of the rare human birth.
What does it feel like to waste time — to look back at a period of your life and see that you were mostly just passing through it? What was missing in those periods?
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