Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
That dwelling which you will have to abandon and vacate — you are attached to it in your mind.
And that place where you must go to dwell — you have no regard for it at all.
Those who fall at the Feet of the Guru are released from this confusion.
The inversion: the temporary dwelling (this body, this world) gets all the attachment; the permanent dwelling (the divine, the beyond) gets no regard. The human psyche has the priorities exactly backwards.
This is not an argument for morbid other-worldliness. It is the argument that the temporary and the permanent should receive proportional investment. Currently the proportions are radically reversed: everything for what is temporary, nothing for what is not.
Do you invest more in your comfort in this world than in understanding what this world is for? What would a rebalanced investment look like?
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