Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the One is kind, a person gets to serve.
By the Guru's grace, they let the grasping self die away while still fully alive.
Night and day they chant the True Naam,
and in this way they cross the wild ocean of the world, so hard to cross.
Serving is a gift of grace, and the True Naam carries you across the hardest waters.
Karam hovai: when grace comes, service follows. Jeevat marai — 'dead while alive' — is again the ego growing quiet while one is warmly alive, an opening rather than a dying. Saying the saach naam (True Name) an-din (night and day) carries a person across the dutar (the hard-to-cross water) — the hardest parts of life. The crossing is not a distant afterlife but the daily passage through what is difficult.
What is a hard thing that becomes easier to cross when you are not facing it alone?
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