Because of its shining characteristic, a child runs to catch hold of snake and fire, but his mother keeps stopping him from doing so resulting in the wailing of the child.
Just as an ailing person wishes to eat food that is not good for his recovery and the physician constantly persuades him to exercise control and prevention and that helps the patient recover.
Just as a blind person is unaware of the good and bad paths, and walks in a zig zag manner even by feeling the path with his walking stick.
So does a Sikh longs to enjoy the pleasure of a woman and others wealth and is ever anxious to possess them, but the True Guru wants to keep his Sikh free from these allurements. (369)