Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The wisest thing we can do is get our path ready while the day is still bright — while we have time, energy, and light to see by.
This world is a beautiful place we pass through, not a place we settle in forever. So we fill it, while we can, with the love and goodness that light our way onward.
janam siraano panth na savaaraa — life passes, the path unprepared. saanjh paree dah dis andhi-aaraa — evening falls, darkness on all sides (a metaphor for a life not readied). The literal dunee-aa fan khaanay (the world is the house of death) is rendered per the Alaahnian as a place we pass through, not settle in — honest about impermanence, free of dread. divaanay (mad-one) softened.
What is one good thing you could get ready now instead of putting off?
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