O dearfriend, know this in your mind. The world is entangled in its own pleasures; no one is for anyone else. || 1 || Pause ||
Ingood times, many come and sit together, surrounding you on all four sides. But when hard times come, they all leave, and noone comes near you. || 1 ||
Your wife, whom you love so much, and who has remained ever attached to you, runs awaycrying, Ghost! Ghost!, as soon as the swan-soul leaves this body. || 2 ||
This is the way they act those whom we love somuch. At the very last moment, O Nanak, no one is any use at all, except the Dear Lord. || 3 || 12 || 139 ||