Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
How can you forget the one who made your soul? Who gave you breath — every single breath?
Without that connection, everything you eat, everything you wear — it's impure. Not by any law, but because something fundamental is missing.
Everything else fades. What actually lasts is what aligns with the truth of how things are.
The closing pauri returns to the fundamental question underneath the whole shabad: how can you forget the source of your own existence?
The word praanaa (breath, life-force) appears here. In yogic and Sikh thought, breath is the most immediate evidence of the divine presence — it arrives without being asked for, it sustains without being earned. To forget the source of breath is to lose touch with the most obvious miracle.
The closing line — "whatever pleases Your Will is acceptable" — is a statement of surrender, the opposite of the drug of falsehood's numbing control.
Right now, take three slow breaths. Did you need to do anything to make that happen? What does that tell you?
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