Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My heart has finally understood: the One is the only Friend who truly stays with me.
Not stuff, not cleverness, not even the people I love most can follow me all the way — but that One never leaves.
The verse lists, without coldness, everything that cannot be your final companion: ego, attachment, Maya's lures — and then, tenderly, mother, father, family, children, cleverness, property — all dear, none able to go with you to the end. Only the Name stays. This isn't a rejection of loved ones; it's a clear-eyed sorting of what is ultimate from what is precious-but-passing. And it ends not grimly but in wonder: jit dekhaa tit soi — wherever I look, there I see Him. Once the one lasting Friend is found, the whole world lights up with that presence.
Who and what are precious to you, even knowing that some things can't last forever?
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