Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Gazing upon their families, people are lured and trapped by emotional attachment. But none will go along with them in the end.
Serving the True Teacher, one finds the Lord, the Treasure of Excellence. His value cannot be estimated.
The Lord God is my Friend and Companion. God shall be with me in the end.
This pauri is poignant: kutat parivar — gazing at family — produces the emotional attachment that traps. Guru Amar Das does not say family is bad. He says the mohu (attachment) produced by gazing at what you love is the trap — not what you love.
The resolution: the Lord God as mitar (friend) and saathee (companion). These are intimate, personal terms — not the language of submission to a king but of friendship with a beloved companion.
Can you love the people closest to you fully, and still hold the recognition that something larger than those relationships is what ultimately holds you? What does holding both look like?
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