Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everything you own except the One is on loan — it doesn't travel with you when you go.
The One is the only wealth that comes along; wherever I end up, it comes too.
The verse draws the plainest line between two kinds of wealth: the borrowed kind that stays behind, and the real kind that travels. This is a memento-mori, but a gentle and practical one — not "you will die, be afraid," but "invest in what you actually get to keep." Naming ordinary wealth "false" doesn't mean money is evil; it means it is temporary, and mistaking the temporary for the ultimate is where the trouble starts.
If you could only take one thing forward that no one could ever take from you, what would you want it to be?
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