Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Sometimes people pour all their cleverness into schemes for getting and keeping more, as if they could stay here forever. But everything you can see around you will one day pass — that is simply how life flows.
So where do you put your effort instead? Into what lasts. Serving the Perfect Guru builds your life on a wall that stands firm. Nanak says: the One forgives and draws you close, and you find yourself at home in the Naam.
Pauri 33 (Fourth Mehl). bahi mand pakaa-i-aa — sitting together, people cook up wrong plans. disdaa sabh kichh chalsee — all that is seen will pass, within the flow of existence (mayre prabh bhaaiaa). The stable wall (thir kandh) is built by aligning with the Perfect Guru — building on what lasts. It ends in forgiveness and absorption in the Name.
What in your life feels lasting enough to build on?
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