Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every love in the world is temporary — as long as someone doesn't love the Lord who made them.
The mind gets drawn into Maya — and once inside that pull, it can't see or hear clearly.
Without actually seeing the Husband Lord, love doesn't well up naturally. What can someone who is spiritually blind do about it?
It was the True One who took away the eyes of spiritual wisdom — and only He can restore them.
"All other loves are transitory"
Hor sabh prīt lutterī — "all other loves are transitory" (literally: looted, stolen, plundered). The word for transitory here is lutterī — not merely temporary but taken away. The loves of the world are not just impermanent; they are taken from you. They disappear not by choice but by force of time and circumstance.
The teaching is not that love is bad. It is that love directed only at the transitory becomes a form of loss. The love that doesn't disappear — that cannot be looted — is love directed at the One who is not transitory.
Spiritual blindness — and who restores sight
Andhā kī kar vekhā — "what can the blind person do?" The soul that cannot see the Husband Lord (the divine) is genuinely blind — not ignorant by choice but structurally unable to perceive. And the last line reveals something striking: sachai netrū dittā, so'ī firāve — "the True One who took away the eyes of spiritual wisdom — He alone can restore them."
The blindness is not the soul's fault. The Lord took the eyes. The Lord restores them. This is neither fatalism nor cruelty — it is the total dependence of the creature on the Creator for the very capacity to perceive. Grace is required not just for the finding but for the ability to see at all.
*Have you loved something deeply and then lost it — and realized afterward that the loss was built into what it was? What did that teach you?*
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