Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Through 8.4 million births, you wandered to obtain this human life.
This human life is very precious and rare. Don't waste it in ego-pleasures.
The rarity is the argument for urgency: you have been given something extraordinary. Use it.
The chaurasee lakh joon (8.4 million species of life) through which the soul cycles before arriving in the human form — a traditional count from old Indian teachings. Whether literal or figurative, the argument is the same: this human form is the result of an enormously long journey. Its rarity makes it precious.
Bahut janm bicchhud (separated for many births) before this meeting. The human life is the opportunity for reunion — with the divine, with the Guru, with the Naam. To spend it in baho vidh kaat (cutting it away in ego-pleasures) is to waste the extraordinary on the ordinary.
If this human life is genuinely rare and precious — a special opportunity that took an unimaginable journey to reach — how does that change how you feel about it today, right now?
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