Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Praise the true, steady One who can do anything.
A heart truly close to the good is never really left alone — its Beloved never dies and never leaves.
Treasuring the good and keeping it in mind, such a heart never has to feel that ache of separation.
Right after the mourning-songs (the Alaahnian), Guru Amar Das offers their healing answer — and it deliberately reverses the widow imagery of those songs. The virtuous soul-bride kaday na hovai vidhvaa—"shall never be a widow, and shall never endure suffering," because her Beloved "is the One who does not die and does not leave." Where the funeral songs sat with the ache of losing a loved one who can die, this shabad points to the one Love that cannot be lost. Keeping that Love in remembrance, a heart "never suffers separation." For a child, gently: the deepest good you can love never dies and never leaves — so that love can never truly be taken from you.
What kind of love do you think can never be lost or taken away?
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