Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The false one abandons his own hearth and home, and goes to another's house on false errands.
He is caught like a thief — without the Name, he takes the blows.
Guru Amar Das says that looking for your worth in other people's lives is like walking into someone else's house. It ends badly.
This builds on the wandering in the line before. Wander away from your own home long enough, and you end up in someone else's. Chorai vaangoo pakrhee-ai — like a thief, he is caught. A person in another's house on false business looks like a thief to anyone.
The picture goes deep. Some people look for their worth in what others have: their praise, their things, their lives. They wander through them with envy. That is a kind of stealing. And it ends the way stealing ends: caught and ashamed, taking the hard results.
Think of scrolling through other people's photos, wishing you had their life. You leave your own good home empty while you do it.
Nobody ever got in trouble for being at home too much. The treasure is in your own house.
When you compare yourself to others, whose house are you really standing in — and what are you there to take?
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