Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
All the world's concerns are only for right now; true peace comes only from Your Name.
Meeting the teaching, Nanak understands, and sings only Your praises forever.
The close sorts the temporary from the lasting: "all worldly considerations are for the present only" — real, but passing — while "true peace comes only from Your Name." The worldly cares are not condemned; they are simply right-sized as present-tense things, unable to give the peace that only the eternal Name gives. And having understood this "meeting the Guru," the response is not withdrawal from the world but endless praise within it. The one who knows what lasts sings.
Which of your concerns are 'present-tense only'? Where does your lasting peace actually come from?
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