Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O my mind — earn the profit before you have to go home. This trip to the market has an end.
The one who is oriented toward the teaching praises the Name — and the fire of egotism is extinguished.
You came here with something to offer. Use it. Don't return with the inventory unchanged.
The rahao continues the merchant metaphor: life is a trading journey, and the mind must earn its profit before the return. The fire of egotism (haumai di aag) is extinguished by praise of the Name — not by fighting the ego, but by redirecting it toward the only thing worth praising.
This is a subtle but important psychological point: the ego doesn't disappear through suppression. It transforms when it finds something genuinely worthy of itself to devote to.
If you had to describe what you 'came here for' — what you were put on earth to do or become — what would you say?
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