Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When we meet real wisdom, we realize the One was living inside us all along.
Then a person remembers the good with every breath, and not one breath is wasted.
The old fears of endings fall away, and a deep, steady aliveness takes their place.
A beautiful Shalok about continuous remembrance: "with each and every breath he constantly remembers the Lord; not a single breath passes in vain." This is the ideal of swaas swaas — remembering with every breath, so that living itself becomes prayer. It's not about long ceremonies but a quiet, constant background awareness woven through an ordinary day. When the One is realized as "pervading deep within," "the fears of birth and death depart" and one gains "the honored state of eternal life." For a child: you can carry a good, true feeling with you quietly all day, breath by breath — and then no moment is wasted.
What good feeling could you carry with you, quietly, through a whole ordinary day?
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