Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Perfect True Guru is met only when He bestows His Glance of Grace.
Then all sins and failings are cut away, and pain and obstruction do not return.
This one says you can't schedule grace, but you can be ready for it.
This verse is the honest hinge of the hymn. Even the meeting that everything flows from is not set up from our side. Pooraa satgur taa milai jaa nadar karay-ee — the Perfect True Guru is met only when the One looks with grace (nadar). We can't book that meeting. But we can stand where grace is known to fall, like waiting at the stop where the bus always comes.
What follows is clean and quick. Kilvikh paap sabh katee-ah — all wrongs and failings are cut away. They are not slowly paid off. Grace does not bargain over the debt; it tears up the bill. Then the freed life walks on with nothing blocking the way.
What would it mean to you if the worst things you have done could be fully cut away?
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