Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
That great king had thousands of sons and grandsons — a huge and powerful family.
And still, in the end, all the lamps in his house went dark.
This one says: even a huge, strong family could not keep the lamps lit forever.
"Ik lakh poot savaa lakh naatee" — Raavan had a lakh of sons (a lakh is a hundred thousand) and even more grandsons. A giant family. It must have seemed like it would last forever.
Yet "tih raavan ghar dee-aa na baatee" — in that house there is no lamp, no wick. The whole great home went dark and empty.
Think of a big house where every window glowed at night. Years later, it stands dark. There is nobody left to switch on a light.
Even what people count on most to outlast them — a big family to carry on — could not keep the lamps lit forever. Nothing built from passing things stays lit on its own. Only what is joined to the One, who never passes, has a light that lasts.
The lesson is not to love your family less. It is to rest your deepest safety in what can never go dark.
What kind of 'light' in a family or a life keeps shining even when everything changes?
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