Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Getting ahead by making poorer people suffer fills you up for a moment. But not one bit of it goes with you in the end.
A heart that keeps doing this feels sorry again and again. Yet somehow it can't quite stop.
Getting ahead by hurting poor people never lasts, and none of it comes with you.
Anaath ranjan means making the helpless and poor suffer. Here the verse sounds a sharp note of fairness. Riches built on hurting people who can't defend themselves cannot even be kept. Care for the poor runs deep in this tradition.
Then the verse names a painful loop. The person does wrong again and again. Pachhutaavahi — they feel sorry, but still cannot stop.
That regret is not there to shame anyone. It is an honest signal that it is time to change. Think of a smoke alarm. It is loud and annoying, but it is trying to help you get out.
If someone is being unkind to you or hurting you, that is never something you have to accept. Telling a grown-up you trust is always the right thing to do.
Have you ever felt bad about the same thing more than once? What was it trying to tell you?
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