DIE AND BECOME ALIVE
Guru Nanak Saheb in the 20th Pauri Of Manjh ki Var at page 147 of Guru Granth Saheb :
“Jeevadian maru mara na pachhotaiye”
To be saved from regrets later,
Better to die while you still live.
This world is a deception,
Whom to tell, who will believe.
None loves this simple truth.
All so involved in worldly pursuits.
Time, inimical, consumes all.
It keeps all under its thrall.
Death hovers over all.
Strikes one by His command.
He Himself plants love within a being
And then dwells therein.
When the time is up, no delay is brooked,
Contents poured out when the cup is full.
This, one understands by the grace of the guru.
And finally gets absorbed in Truth.
——-Translated by Ashok Gupta
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