Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Meeting the Perfect True Guru, my life has borne its fruit.
I have received the Name — the nine treasures — and the storehouse is inexhaustible, full to overflowing.
Guru Amar Das is speaking from his own life: he met the Guru, and his life bore fruit.
Pooraa satgur bhayti-aa safal janam hamaaraa — meeting the Perfect True Guru, my life has borne fruit. Then he lists what he received: navai niDh, the nine treasures. That is an old picture for all the riches anyone could own. All of it is folded inside one Name.
And this storehouse is akhut, never running out. No bank vault is like that. The more you take out, the more you see how full it is. Think of a candle that lights other candles. It never loses its own flame. Gurbani often calls the One the great Giver, whose storerooms never empty. Here someone who received the gift says so from his own experience.
What in your life grows when you give it away — and what shrinks?
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