ਤਿਲੰਗ ਮਹਲਾ ੯ ॥
tilang mehlaa 9.
Tilang, Ninth Mehl:
ਜਾਗ ਲੇਹੁ ਰੇ ਮਨਾ ਜਾਗ ਲੇਹੁ ਕਹਾ ਗਾਫਲ ਸੋਇਆ ॥
jaag layho ray manaa jaag layho kahaa gaafal so-i-aa.
Wake up, O mind! Wake up! Why are you sleeping unaware?
ਜੋ ਤਨੁ ਉਪਜਿਆ ਸੰਗ ਹੀ ਸੋ ਭੀ ਸੰਗਿ ਨ ਹੋਇਆ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
jo tan upji-aa sang hee so bhee sang na ho-i-aa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
That body, which you were born with, shall not go along with you in the end. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Wake up, mind! Wake up! Why are you sleeping unaware?
The body you were born with will not go with you in the end.
Even the body you were born with won't come with you in the end — a fact meant to wake you to what actually lasts.
The Ninth Master's second wake-up is even more direct: "Wake up, O mind! Wake up!" The "sleep" is spiritual — living unaware of what is real and what is passing. And the plain fact that stirs the sleeper: even "that body, which you were born with, shall not go along with you." If the body itself doesn't come, how much less everything we pile onto it. The waking is toward clear sight about what lasts.
A Question to Sit With
What are you treating as permanent that, honestly, won't come with you all the way?
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