Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Haven't you heard the call from beyond — the summons that is already coming?
You must go to your in-laws' house. You cannot stay with your parents forever.
The soul-bride who has made her peace with this journey — she is ready. The one still clinging to the home she started from — she will be pulled away unprepared.
The marriage metaphor maps onto death: in traditional Indian culture, a daughter's departure to her husband's home was understood as inevitable — it was arranged before she was born. The soul's departure from this body follows the same structure: it was arranged before the soul arrived.
The "in-laws' house" (sasural) is the realm of the True One. The "parents' house" (peehar) is this life. You were always only visiting here.
How do you think about where you 'belong'? Is it a place, a people, a state of being? What feels most like home to you?
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