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Guru Teghbahadar Sahib urgently addresses the mind trapped in greed, which suffers steeped in vices. The individual is encouraged to inculcate the virtues of IkOankar (the Divine), become free from these vices’ entanglement, and find comfort.
gaüṛī   mahalā  9.  
 
man  re   kahā  bhaïo  tai  baürā.  
ahinisi  aüdh  ghaṭai   nahī  jānai     bhaïo  lobh  saṅgi  haürā.1.  rahāu.  
jo  tanu tai  apno  kari  mānio     aru  sundar  grih  nārī.  
in  maiṁ  kachu  tero  re  nāhani     dekho  soc  bicārī.1.  
ratan  janamu  apno  tai  hārio     gobind  gati  nahī  jānī.  
nimakh  na  līn  bhaïo  carnan  siṁu   birthā  aüdh  sirānī.2.  
kahu  nānak   soī  naru  sukhīā   rām  nām  gun  gāvai.  
aür  sagal  jagu  māiā  mohiā     nirbhai  padu  nahī  pāvai.3.8.  
-Guru  Granth  Sahib  220  
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GAURI 8 
In the eighth composition, Guru Teghbahadar says, O mind! Why have you become crazy? Day and night, lifespan is diminishing, and still, you do not understand. You have become feeble with greed. The Guru directly addresses the mind gently to shake it out of its illusion. Time is passing by, life is ever-diminishing, and still, the mind is not able to understand the temporariness of all of this. Still, the mind spends the little time it has engrossed in greed. And that greed makes us fickle and feeble and shameful to others. We get so engrossed in it that we do not even have a sense of shame anymore, and we walk around making fools of ourselves in the name of accumulating more and wanting more and never being satisfied.  
 
O mind! Why have you become crazy? The bodies which we have considered to be ours, the beautiful spouses we may have, none of these are ours. The Guru has asked us to reflect on this. The literal phrase that is used refers to the beautiful woman of the house, as wives were seen as literal property, and this is a statement about the things we think we own. We believe that these temporary and fleeting things are forever and that they will stay with us forever. But deep down, we know this is not the case, and it causes us great anxiety because we are so worried about losing what we think is ours. If we can understand that nothing is ours, we will not fear losing anything, and we won’t be so frenzied in looking to accumulate more relationships and more material things. 

O mind! Why have you become crazy? The Guru continues by saying that we have lost our jewel-like lives, the rare gift of this human life has been wasted away, and we have not found the way of the Earth-Knower. We did not connect with IkOankar (One Universal Integrative Force, 1Force, the One) for even a moment. We did not exist in a humble and loving relationship with IkOankar, or internally cleanse ourselves, or adopt the virtues of the Earth-Knower. And so we have spent our lives in vain, wasting the opportunity and making it utterly fruitless. 
 
O mind! Why have you become crazy? The Guru says that it is only the one who sings the virtues of the Beautiful, who Identifies with the Beautiful and inculcates the virtues, is content and joyous. The rest of the world is captivated by Maya, or attachment to the material and to our relationships, and because of this, we cannot find a state of fearlessness. We are too worried about ownership, loss, and things being taken from us. Fear comes from that sense of ownership, from that lack of understanding of the temporariness of all things, and from the ever-snowballing greed that takes root when we think this way. 
 
The Guru shakes our minds to tell us that what we consider to be ours is not ours — not even our bodies. We are asleep and entangled in Maya, engrossed in attachment and greed. Due to this, we have not connected to IkOankar, inculcated the virtues, and cleansed ourselves internally. We are blinded by greed, and we have lost our awareness. The real joyous and content individual is the one who is inculcating the virtues of the Beautiful and Identifying with the Beautiful. This is the only way to reach a state of fearlessness. Will we wake up from our lack of awareness and understand that nothing is ours? Will we release our anxieties about loss and accumulation to walk the path of freedom and fearlessness? 
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