Verse 374 of 450
Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 73 — where are your mother and father?
ਫਰੀਦਾ ਕਿਥੈ ਤੈਡੇ ਮਾਪਿਆ ਜਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹੀ ਤੂ ਜਣਿਓਹਿ ॥
fareedaa kithai taiday maapi-aa jinHee too jani-ohi.
Fareed, where are your mother and father, who gave birth to you?
ਤੈ ਪਾਸਹੁ ਓਇ ਲਦਿ ਗਏ ਤੂੰ ਅਜੈ ਨ ਪਤੀਣੋਹਿ ॥੭੩॥
tai paashu o-ay lad ga-ay tooN ajai na pateenohi. ||73||
They have left you, but even so, you are not convinced that you shall also have to go. ||73||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Farid says: where are your mother and father, who gave birth to you?
They have packed up and left you, and still you are not convinced that you will go too.
Those before us have gone, and our turn will come too.
The people who came before us have gone, and one day we will go too.
Kithai taiday maapi-aa: where are the parents who gave you life? Lad ga-ay: they have loaded up and left, like travelers moving on. Yet a person still lives as if their own turn will never come.
Farid asks this gently but firmly. He is not trying to make anyone sad. Remembering that life is short helps a person live each day well.
A Question to Sit With
What love was passed down to you that you would like to pass forward?
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