In Love with Duality, She Goes Through 8.4 Million Incarnations
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The soul-bride in love with duality goes around the wheel of reincarnation — through 8.4 million incarnations.
Without the Guru, she finds no sleep. She passes her life-night in pain.
Without the Shabad, she does not find her Husband Lord. Her life wastes away in vain.
The 8.4 million incarnations (chauraaseeh lakh) — the vast cycle of rebirth described in old Indian teachings about the universe. Each birth in the cycle is an opportunity and a repetition of the same fundamental problem: the love of duality that prevents union.
"The life-night passes in pain" — the raat (night) of life is passed without rest. This is the existential exhaustion of the divided heart: no sleep, no peace, no arrival.
What does restlessness feel like for you — the kind that no amount of sleep or entertainment resolves? What is it actually restless about?
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