Meditating on the Lord, His servant swims across to salvation.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In the company of the good he sings the One's wonder, and does not lose the jewel of this human life.
Singing the glory of the One, he crosses the ocean of poison and saves all his generations too.
"The jewel of this human life" is a precious phrase (see the tradition's teaching that human birth is a rare, precious opportunity — Aasaa's "human body won, not lost"). Life is a jewel you can either treasure or squander; good company and remembrance are how you keep from "losing" it. And the reach of the saving extends outward: "saves all his generations as well." One life turned truly toward the One lifts a whole family line — those before and those after. Goodness is not sealed in a single person; it ripples through the generations, backward and forward. Your own turning toward the light warms more people than you.
How might one person living well affect their whole family, even people they never meet?
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