ਭਰਮਿ ਭੂਲੇ ਬਾਦਿ ਅਹੰਕਾਰੀ ॥
bharam bhoolay baad ahaNkaaree.
The egotistical people are deluded by useless doubt.
ਸੰਗਿ ਨਾਹੀ ਰੇ ਸਗਲ ਪਸਾਰੀ ॥
sang naahee ray sagal pasaaree.
Of all this expanse, nothing shall go along with you.
ਸੋਗ ਹਰਖ ਮਹਿ ਦੇਹ ਬਿਰਧਾਨੀ ॥
sog harakh meh dayh birDhaanee.
Through pleasure and pain, the body is growing old.
ਸਾਕਤ ਇਵ ਹੀ ਕਰਤ ਬਿਹਾਨੀ ॥੩॥
saakat iv hee karat bihaanee. ||3||
Doing these things, the faithless cynics are passing their lives. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Puffed up with pride, people wander lost in useless doubt.
Out of all this spread-out world, not one thing goes along with you.
Through sad times and happy times, the body grows older.
People cut off from the One spend their whole lives this way.
Nothing you own follows you onward — so hold it lightly.
Bharam bhoolay, wandering in doubt, and ahankaaree, swollen with ego: that is the drift. Saakat means one turned away from the Source. It names a way of living, not a kind of person, and a way of living can change.
A Question to Sit With
If you couldn't take your stuff with you, what would you most want to have become?
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