Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If I let go of the Name and pour myself into everything else instead, all the shiny pretenses I built eventually just... come undone.
Whatever you build on pretending comes undone in the end.
Naam ti-aag karay an kaaj — leaving the Name, someone throws themselves into an kaaj, other work. Binas jaa-ay jhoothay sabh paaj — all their false coverings fall away. Paaj is pretense, a mask.
Think of a sandcastle built right at the water's edge. It can look grand, but the next wave takes it. What is built without a real center does not hold. This is simply how things go. It is not a threat of doom.
What is something 'shiny' you've seen fall apart because it had no real substance?
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