Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
People chase after what they crave and forget the way of the Name. Even the people we love most — parents, children, brothers and sisters — can feel like they are struggling for air when there is no real water of love to hold them.
Everyone who arrives here will one day move on; those who turn to the teaching find their footing.
But the one who lives toward the teaching and holds the Name lifts themselves — and their whole family with them.
The Name lives deep inside the heart, and through the teaching, you meet the One you love.
This one says that even our dearest bonds need the deeper water of the Name to hold us up.
It names a hard truth gently. Doob mu-ay bin paanee — they drowned, even without water. It means a life ruled by grasping can go under, even when there is plenty all around. Think of someone who feels like they are sinking while sitting in a room full of good things. Nothing looks wrong outside, but inside they are going under.
Parents, children, brothers and sisters are very dear. Family is precious. The point is that love needs the deeper water of the Name to truly carry us. The verse mentions kaam, craving. It aims at the ego's grasping, not at natural human love. Ha-umai Dhaat sansaaray — people rush around the world in haumai, the ego, the me-first feeling. That restless running is what the verse is naming.
Then the turn is hopeful, and it includes everyone. Aap tarai kul taaray — the one who holds the Name crosses over, and carries the whole family across too. Kul means family. The teaching is not a private rescue. It lifts everyone around you.
How does something good in you — patience, kindness, calm — end up lifting the people around you too?
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