Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Consider the time you have been given. Worship the Lord night and day.
Without the True Teacher, this time passes and is wasted. And you find no peace at all.
Time is the one resource that cannot be replenished. Once it has passed, it has passed.
Vayt velaah — consider the time. This is the urgency teaching again: awareness of time's passing as a spur to present engagement. Guru Amar Das throughout Siree Raag treats wasted time as the central tragedy: the human birth is short, the opportunity is specific, and the moments are finite.
"Night and day" (raat din) — the worship is not occasional or seasonal. It is constant. Not because the divine requires constant performance but because the wandering mind needs constant orientation.
When you think about how you've been spending your time this week, how much of it has been toward what actually matters most to you? What would a week that reflected your deepest values look like?
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