Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The truest good is steady and lasting — it doesn't die and doesn't leave.
When we forget it, we can feel alone, as if we'd lost something, even while it's right here.
Everything that comes will one day pass — so lean your weight on what stays.
The verse sets the lasting against the passing: "that Beloved is True, forever True; He does not die and does not leave," while "whatever has come, all shall pass." The one who forgets "sits like a widow" even though nothing is truly lost — the separation is only in the forgetting. The frightening imagery (the Messenger of Death) is set aside; the gentle lesson is kept: lean your weight on what stays, not on what passes. For a child: everything that comes will one day pass, so lean your weight on the good that stays.
What in your life stays steady even as other things change?
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