Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Here is how the trade works. The great Teacher is the Banker who backs you. The students are the traders who go out into the world. The money they carry is the Name itself, and the record they keep is simply the truth.
The commercial image reaches its clearest form: satgur saahu, sikh vanjaare — the True Guru is the Banker, the Sikhs are the traveling merchants. A trader needs backing capital to trade at all — and here the poonjee (capital) is the Name, given freely to carry. Their ledger, their lekhaa, is saach — truth itself; there is nothing to hide in the books because the only accounting is honesty. The relationship is one of trust flowing outward: the Banker equips, the traders go, and what they deal in and record is never anything but real.
Who 'backs' you — gives you what you need to go out and do good in the world?
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