ਜੀਵਣਿ ਮਰਣਿ ਸੁਖੁ ਹੋਇ ਜਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹਾ ਗੁਰੁ ਪਾਇਆ ॥
jeevan maran sukh ho-ay jinHaa gur paa-i-aa.
Those who have found the Guru are at peace, in life and in death.
ਨਾਨਕ ਸਚੇ ਸਚਿ ਸਚਿ ਸਮਾਇਆ ॥੪॥੧੨॥੬੪॥
naanak sachay sach sach samaa-i-aa. ||4||12||64||
O Nanak, the true ones are truly absorbed into the True Lord. ||4||12||64||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who have found the Guru are at peace — in life and in death.
Says Nanak: the true ones are truly absorbed into the True One.
The deepest peace is the kind that holds steady on both sides of death.
The resolution: the Guru's people are "at peace, in life and in death." The same steadiness holds on both sides of the threshold — death is not a cliff for them but a doorway, because the soul already absorbed in the True One simply continues. Peace that survives death is the deepest peace there is.
A Question to Sit With
What would it mean to be equally at peace whether things last or end?
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