Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever gives their heart to an actor
feels let down when the costume comes off.
Like the shade of a passing cloud,
so is the world's whole show of clinging and wrong ways.
Many things we chase are like an actor's costume or a cloud's shade: here, and then gone.
The first picture is an actor. Savaangee means someone in costume. You might love the hero in a school play. Then the play ends, the costume comes off, and he is just a classmate again. Fir pachhutaavai — then you feel a little let down.
The second picture is maygh kee chhaa-i-aa, the shade of a cloud. On a hot day, a cloud gives a cool patch of shade. But the cloud drifts on, and the shade moves with it.
The verse says the pull of the world is like that. It offers things that are here and then gone. The Gurus call what passes away jhooth, and what lasts sach, the truth. Enjoy the shade. But lean on what lasts.
What is something fun that you know is only temporary, and how do you enjoy it without holding too tight?
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