Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When comfort and wealth come his way, the one cut off from the One grows proud inside.
But the One who owns this body and this wealth takes them back again, and then worry and pain fill him deep inside.
What we have is on loan, and pride in it turns to worry when it goes.
A saakat is someone cut off from the Source. When good fortune comes, he grows abhimaan, proud, as if he made it all himself. Jis kaa ih tan Dhan — the body and wealth belong to the One, and the One takes them back. Then sahsaa, anxiety, rises up inside. It is like bragging about a borrowed bike and then panicking when its owner asks for it back. Holding gifts loosely, and the Giver close, keeps that worry away.
What have you been given that it helps to remember was a gift?
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