Salok Vaaraan Te Vadheek (Mehl 3), Salok 60 — the Naam as your resting place
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Naam of the One is the support of the One's humble servants; without the Naam there is no other place, no place to rest.
Through the Guru's teaching, the Naam comes to live in the mind, and one merges, easily and naturally, in the One.
The very fortunate meditate on the Naam; day and night they are held by love.
Nanak prays: let me have the dust of their feet; I am forever devoted to them.
The Naam is the one support that never gives way.
Jan kee tayk har naam: the Naam of the One is the support of the humble. Bin naavai thavar na thaa-o: without it there is nowhere else to rest.
"The dust of their feet" is a Gurbani image of deep humility — wanting to learn from those further along, placing yourself low not out of shame but out of respect. Sahaj again marks the effortless quality of the absorption: nothing is forced.
Where do you go, inside yourself, when you need to feel steady?
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