Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Mothers, fathers, friends, children, husbands and wives — none of them is ultimately the support of another. Each depends on something deeper.
For each and every living being, it is the Lord who provides sustenance. So why, O mind, are you so afraid?
This is not a cold teaching — it does not dismiss the love of parents, friends and family. It locates that love within a larger truth: the love that flows through a mother, a father, a friend, comes from the same source that sustains all life. They are channels, not origins.
When we make any person our ultimate support — the one we cannot live without, the one who holds us together — we are asking them to carry something only the source can carry. They will fail, not because they don't love us, but because no finite being can bear infinite weight. Recognising where support actually comes from frees both you and the people you love.
Have you ever leaned on someone so heavily that it became too much for them? What does it feel like when you realise the weight we sometimes put on the people we love?
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