Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Sometimes there is rice pudding, sugar and ghee, and still people don't enjoy it.
Sometimes they have to ask for bread from door to door.
Sometimes they have to pick through the husks for a few grains.
Life keeps turning, from plenty to very little and back again.
Kabhoo kheer khaad ghee-o na bhaavai: sometimes even rice pudding, sugar and ghee do not please. Kabhoo ghar ghar took magaavai: sometimes a person asks for bread at door after door. Kabhoo kooran chanay binaavai: sometimes they pick the grains out of the chaff.
This opens a chain of "sometimes" pictures that runs through the whole shabad. Nobody stays in one place on the wheel.
What is something you have that is easy to take for granted?
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