The Closing Saloks, Savaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (the bard Keerat)
Stand near the good, and the good rubs off on you.
The Arc
Stand near the Guru and good things rub off on you: remembering the One, steady effort, truth, a feeling of having enough. Come to that shelter and you are safe. Even the old account kept in the city of death is wiped clean. A heart there fills with love and calls out to the Creator. Picture a river full of pearls. Someone sinking is lifted across in a blink. Serve with your time and your hands, and your heaviest troubles and your poverty are carried far away. At the center, the opening line: seeing the Guru, a Sikh is blessed with remembrance, truth and contentment.
Key Vocabulary
santokh - contentment
jam pur - the city of death
daree-aa-o - river
daridar - poverty
Hukumnama
Subject: Stay near the good and it rubs off Preview: Truth and contentment from one look, an old account wiped clean, a river of pearls.
Today: Stand near the Guru and good things rub off on you: remembering the One, steady effort, truth, a feeling of having enough. Come to that shelter and you are safe. Even the old account kept in the city of death is wiped clean. A heart there fills with love and calls out to the Creator. Picture a river full of pearls. Someone sinking is lifted across in a blink. Serve with your time and your hands, and your heaviest troubles and your poverty are carried far away.
Stay near the good, and it rubs off on you.
For today: Spend ten minutes today with someone whose goodness you admire.
Stand near the good, and the good rubs off on you.
The Arc
Stand near the Guru and good things rub off on you: remembering the One, steady effort, truth, a feeling of having enough. Come to that shelter and you are safe. Even the old account kept in the city of death is wiped clean. A heart there fills with love and calls out to the Creator. Picture a river full of pearls. Someone sinking is lifted across in a blink. Serve with your time and your hands, and your heaviest troubles and your poverty are carried far away. At the center, the opening line: seeing the Guru, a Sikh is blessed with remembrance, truth and contentment.
Key Vocabulary
Hukumnama
Subject: Stay near the good and it rubs off Preview: Truth and contentment from one look, an old account wiped clean, a river of pearls.
Today: Stand near the Guru and good things rub off on you: remembering the One, steady effort, truth, a feeling of having enough. Come to that shelter and you are safe. Even the old account kept in the city of death is wiped clean. A heart there fills with love and calls out to the Creator. Picture a river full of pearls. Someone sinking is lifted across in a blink. Serve with your time and your hands, and your heaviest troubles and your poverty are carried far away.
Stay near the good, and it rubs off on you.
For today: Spend ten minutes today with someone whose goodness you admire.