ਹਰਿ ਜਨ ਨਾਮੁ ਅਧਾਰੁ ਹੈ ਧੁਰਿ ਪੂਰਬਿ ਲਿਖੇ ਵਡ ਕਰਮਾ ॥
har jan naam aDhaar hai Dhur poorab likhay vad karmaa.
The Naam is the Support of the Lord's humble servants; their good karma is pre-ordained.
ਗੁਰਿ ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਦ੍ਰਿੜਾਇਆ ਜਨ ਨਾਨਕ ਸਫਲੁ ਜਨੰਮਾ ॥੪॥੨॥
gur satgur naam drirh-aa-i-aa jan naanak safal jannamaa. ||4||2||
The Guru, the True Guru, has implanted the Naam within servant Nanak, and his life is fruitful. ||4||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
For those who love the One, the Name is the thing they lean their whole weight on — and the good in their lives has been quietly building toward this.
Nanak says: the Guru, the True Guru, has planted the Naam deep inside me, and my life has become fruitful — it bears something real.
The Name is the support that turns a life from empty circling into something that bears fruit.
Naam aDhaar — the Name as support — is the shabad's resolution: a life propped on the One, not on its own strength. Safal jannamaa (a fruitful life) is what grows once the Name is drirh-aa-i-aa, planted firmly within.
A Question to Sit With
What is the one thing that, when you lean on it, makes everything else feel steadier?
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