Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Dear One — death hangs over the head all the while; life after life, it plays the enemy.
Those tuned to the true Word are carried across; the teaching has made this clear.
The verse states the human predicament plainly — mortality "hangs constantly over his head" — and does not flinch from it. But it immediately gives the answer: those "attuned to the True Word of the Shabad are saved." The looming enemy is disarmed not by denial but by anchoring life in something the enemy cannot reach. Death remains a fact; it stops being a terror for the one whose center is in the deathless Word. Understanding, imparted by the teaching, is what turns the dread into peace.
How do you relate to the fact of mortality — with dread, denial, or something steadier?
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