Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have given my whole heart to the saints, placing what matters most there — even above the family ties I was born into.
And the old labels — what family I came from, what rank or status I was born with — have simply dropped away as I sing for the One. None of them decides my worth.
Your deepest belonging lives with the One. The label you were born with does not decide your worth.
It sounds bold. Maatar pitar ti-aag means leaving mother and father. Jaat janam kul kho-ee-ai means losing caste, birth, and family line. Jaat, caste, was an old system that ranked people by the family they were born into.
This is not a call to walk away from your family. It is about placing your deepest belonging with the One and with the saints. When you do that, the labels you were born with lose their power to say what you are worth.
Think of a team where nobody cares whose parents are rich or famous. All that matters is how you play and how you treat each other. Gurbani says this again and again: birth labels do not rank people.
What is one label people use that does not tell you who someone is?
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