Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your turn to be alive has come — this is your chance, right now.
It's a rare and precious opening, so don't let it drift by unnoticed.
Vaaree aa-i-aa — your turn has come. The image is of waiting a long while for your turn at something wonderful and finally getting it: this human life, this chance to wake up and love. The urgency — baho-r na aavai vaar, this turn won't come again — is not meant to frighten but to make the present moment shine: if this opening is rare, then today is precious, and worth spending well. The whole poem's alarm has been in service of this one tender realization — you're here, now, and that itself is the opportunity.
If today were a rare and precious chance, what would you want to do with it?
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