ੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥
ik-oNkaar satgur parsaad.
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
ਆਸਾ ਘਰੁ ੧੦ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥
aasaa ghar 10 mehlaa 5.
Aasaa, Tenth House, Fifth Mehl:
ਜਿਸ ਨੋ ਤੂੰ ਅਸਥਿਰੁ ਕਰਿ ਮਾਨਹਿ ਤੇ ਪਾਹੁਨ ਦੋ ਦਾਹਾ ॥
jis no tooN asthir kar maaneh tay paahun do daahaa.
That which you believe to be permanent, is a guest here for only a few days.
ਪੁਤ੍ਰ ਕਲਤ੍ਰ ਗ੍ਰਿਹ ਸਗਲ ਸਮਗ੍ਰੀ ਸਭ ਮਿਥਿਆ ਅਸਨਾਹਾ ॥੧॥
putar kaltar garih sagal samagree sabh mithi-aa asnaahaa. ||1||
Children, wives, homes, and all possessions - attachment to all of these is false. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What you believe to be permanent is a guest here for only a few days.
Children, spouse, home, all possessions — attachment to all of these is false.
Even the dearest things are guests here for only a few days — hold them, don't clutch them.
A bracing memento mori: "that which you believe to be permanent, is a guest here for only a few days." Even the dearest things — family, home — are temporary guests, and attachment to them "is false" (not the love, but the clinging that treats them as permanent; cf. Shabad 141).
A Question to Sit With
What do you treat as permanent that is really only passing through?
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