Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Guru meets those who take goodness as their treasure;
they listen to the true Word of the Guru's Bani.
Pain leaves the place where the Word lives, and by the jewel of wisdom one melts easily into the True One.
Guru Amar Das is saying: wherever the Word truly lives, pain cannot stay.
First, the Guru meets those who treasure goodness. Punn means goodness and good deeds. Another hymn in this raag calls these virtues gun. Treasuring goodness is what draws the Guru near. Those people then hear the true Word, the Guru's Banee, the Guru's hymns.
Then a beautiful promise: where the Shabad lives, pain goes away. Wherever the Word truly lives — in a heart, a home, a gathering — suffering loses its footing. It is like opening the curtains in a dark room. The dark does not argue; it simply leaves. With the jewel of gi-aan, wisdom, a person melts easily into the True One.
What practice or presence makes pain a little lighter wherever it is?
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