Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 51 — Dying While Alive
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those on whom the One pours mercy — the True Guru comes and meets them.
Meeting the True Guru, they turn around from the world; they die to themselves while still alive, and live in calm, natural peace.
Nanak says: the devotees, dyed in love for the One, merge in the Naam of the One, Har, Har.
Grace brings the Guru, and meeting the Guru turns a life around.
Jin ka-o kirpaa Dhaaree-an: those on whom the One pours kirpaa, mercy, meet the True Guru. Ultee bha-ee: everything turns the other way. The mind that faced the world now faces the One.
Mar jeevi-aa: they "die while alive." The grabbing, "I, I" self goes still, and a person lives on in sahj subhaa-ay, calm and natural ease. The devotees, dyed in love, merge in the Naam.
Have you ever changed so much inside that it felt like a kind of fresh start, and what sparked it?
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