Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everything true and untrue gets gently sorted out in the end, like a jeweler testing gold.
What's only pretend doesn't hold up — but there's always time to become real.
Getting fixated only on shiny things can leave a heart resentful and stuck.
The verse gives the Assayer image: "the counterfeit and the genuine are all assayed in the Court of the True Lord" — like a jeweler testing whether gold is real. What's merely pretend doesn't hold up under testing. The qMonk voice, per the wellbeing rules, turns the harsh "cast out, crying" toward hope: there's always time to become real; and it softens "resentful toward the Saints" to the stuck, resentful state fixation can breed. For a child: what's only pretend doesn't hold up in the end — but there's always time to become real and true.
What's the difference between pretending to be good and actually being good?
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