Salok Bhagat Kabir, Salok 44 — every choice has a fruit
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Kabir says: let me remind you of this, so that no doubt is left in your mind.
The pleasures you enjoyed so much before — now you must eat what they bring.
What we chase now comes back to us later, and we live with what it brings.
Ih chaytaavnee, this is a reminder. Mat sahsaa reh jaa-ay, so that no doubt is left. Kabir wants the point to land clearly.
Paachhai bhog jo bhogvay, the pleasures enjoyed before: tin ko gurh lai khaahi, now eat their "sweets." Gurh is a lump of brown sugar. The word is a little teasing: the treats of the past turn into the fruit you have to eat later.
Think of eating all your candy at once. It was sweet then. The stomachache that follows is part of the same candy.
What is something fun now that might bring trouble later, and something hard now that might bring good later?
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