Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
If I pour out my troubles to just anyone, they often answer with troubles of their own, bigger and heavier.
But when I bring my troubles to the One, they lift right away.
It would be a shame to turn from a friend like that and carry my worries alone to people who cannot really hold them.
The verse is not saying don't confide in people — good friends matter. It is naming a common experience: unloaded onto the wrong listener, a sorrow doubles rather than halves. Tatkaal kataa-saa — cut away at once — describes the relief of bringing pain to the One who already knows it fully. The literal 'you shall die of shame' is softened here to the quieter regret of carrying a burden you never needed to carry alone.
When you are hurting, who or what do you turn to first?
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