Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You can gather up money and stuff and more stuff, but in the end that pile only weighs on you — it never fills the hole it promised to fill.
Big houses, fancy rooms, decorated palaces — none of it follows you when it counts.
You could raise a stable of magnificent horses, and still they would be no help where it matters most.
So here is the wise tip: tie your heart to the Name. That is the one companion who stays with you all the way to the end.
Nanak says: hold on to the Naam, turn toward the Guru, and you find a peace nothing can buy.
A classic anti-maya Pauri, but framed as loving advice rather than scolding. The catalog — wealth, mansions, prize horses — is not condemned as evil; it simply ki-chh saath na jaa-ee, “does not go with you.” The contrast is the Name as the one sakhaa-ee, companion/helper, that does. Naam is what stays with you, what the soul carries forward. The tone is warm — a friend giving you an honest tip about what lasts.
If you could only keep one thing that money can't buy, what would you want it to be?
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