Does Your Happiness Leave With the Fun, or Travel With You?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The world offers so many bright, fun things — but they sparkle for a moment and then they're gone.
The ones who fall in love with the Name carry a happiness that goes wherever they go.
A clean comparison, not a scolding: jetay maa-i-aa rang ras binas jaahi khin maahi — all Maya's colors and flavors are real pleasures, but they pass in an instant (khin, a blink). The verse doesn't call them evil; it calls them brief. Set against them: those soaked in the Name sukh bhuncheh sabh thaa-ay — enjoy peace everywhere, in every place. That's the difference the hymn cares about — not fun versus no-fun, but a joy that leaks away the moment the fun stops versus a joy that travels with you into every room.
What's a happiness that stays with you even after the exciting part is over?
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