Salok Bhagat Kabir, Salok 231 — the Sangat opens the hard road
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Kabir says: you find the Sangat, the company of the holy, when it is written on your forehead.
There you receive the treasure of freedom, and the hard road to the One is no longer blocked.
In the Sangat, even the hardest road to the One opens up.
Saadhoo sang is the Sangat — people gathered together to remember the One. Finding it is likhi-aa ho-ay lilaat, written on the forehead, an old way of speaking of destiny. Here, as so often, what is written is a blessing, a gift.
In that company you find mukat padaarath, the treasure of freedom. Thaak na avghat ghaat: no barrier on the steep, hard pass. Think of a hiking trail that looks too steep, until friends who know the way walk it with you.
Who has helped you walk a road that looked too hard?
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