Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are so proud of your children and your wife.
Your Master will ask you to give an account of your life.
The soul feels the pain of what it has done.
Afterward, who will you call out to, "Dear one, dear one"?
Pride in family and belongings leans your whole self on things that pass away, even the people you love most.
putar kaltar means children and wife. The verse says you are so proud of them. Family is a gift to love. The trouble is pride that says, "These are mine, so I am great."
The verse says the Master will one day ask for our account — what we did with our life. The heart feels the weight of its own choices. Think of leaning on a door that suddenly opens. You stumble, because you trusted it to hold you. When we put our whole weight on what passes, we end up calling out, pee-o pee-o, "dear, dear," for what has already gone.
What is something steady you can lean on that will not slip away?
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