Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You can try every trick there is, but you can’t make yourself stay here forever, friend — that was never how it works.
And yet, Nanak says, there is a way to live on: love the Name, let it sing inside you, keep the One close — and something in you lives beyond the reach of endings.
Life is short, and that truth turns into hope. Rehan... naahee — plainly, no scheme keeps you here forever; the honesty is kind. Then the turn: jeevat rahahu — "you shall live forevermore" — jap har... sanbandh, if you love and vibrate the Name. A paradox: you cannot make the body stay, but by keeping the One close you touch something that doesn't end — something in you lives beyond the reach of endings, the Naam as what the soul carries forward. The impossible wish (stay here) gives way to the lasting gift (be rooted in what can't be lost).
What is something about a person you think lives on, even when they’re no longer around?
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