ਗੁਰ ਕੈ ਦਰਸਨਿ ਮੋਖ ਦੁਆਰੁ ॥
gur kai darsan mokh du-aar.
Through the Guru's system, the Door of Salvation is obtained.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਸੇਵੈ ਪਰਵਾਰ ਸਾਧਾਰੁ ॥
satgur sayvai parvaar saaDhaar.
Serving the True Guru, one's family is saved.
ਨਿਗੁਰੇ ਕਉ ਗਤਿ ਕਾਈ ਨਾਹੀ ॥
niguray ka-o gat kaa-ee naahee.
There is no salvation for those who have no Guru.
ਅਵਗਣਿ ਮੁਠੇ ਚੋਟਾ ਖਾਹੀ ॥੩॥
avgan muthay chotaa khaahee. ||3||
Beguiled by worthless sins, they are struck down. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Guru's way opens the door to freedom; serving the true Guru, your whole family is lifted with you.
Without a Guru to follow, there is no way through —
people are fooled by worthless wrongs and knocked down by them.
No one crosses entirely alone — and when one person is lifted, the whole family rises with them.
Two notes here. First, salvation overflows: "serving the True Guru, one's family is saved" — the awakened soul lifts the household (cf. Shabad 39). Second, the stark line "there is no salvation for those who have no Guru" — not a sectarian claim but the conviction that no one crosses alone, by sheer self-effort; everyone needs a teacher to break the spell of "worthless sins."
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