Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Once you've found what truly matters, nothing else can buy your heart away.
Even if someone handed you the whole earth turned to gold, it wouldn't compare — because this treasure never sinks and never leaves you.
The verse makes a bold, memorable claim: even if the entire earth were turned to gold and given to them, without the Name they love nothing else. A heart anchored in the real thing simply can't be bought — the biggest bribe imaginable doesn't move it. And the reason is practical, not just pious: this wealth does not sink and does not depart — it goes with you to the very end, when gold cannot. For a child this is a clear scale of values: the treasure worth having is the one no amount of the world's gold can equal, because it's the only one that lasts and stays.
If someone offered you anything money could buy, what would you still not trade away?
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