Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Serve the Guru, and when grace touches you, you find the One.
Ordinary people grow bright as angels when true love fills them.
As the grip of ego loosens, they are gathered into the One, made clear and clean by the Guru's Word.
Nanak says: naturally, easily, they stay merged with the One, carrying the quiet greatness of the Naam.
A Guru Amar Das shalok with a startling, hopeful line: maanas tay dayvtay bha-ay -- "human beings became angels." The transformation is not earned by strain; it comes through sachee bhagat (true love) that the One gives, and it happens sehjay (naturally, without force). Ha-umai maar (conquering ego) is the quieting of the small grasping self, not self-attack. For a child: you are not stuck as you are -- people do become luminous.
Do you know anyone who seems to shine from the inside? What do you think makes them that way?
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