Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Inside the Guru lives the greatness of the Naam, and the One who made everything keeps making it grow.
The Guru's servants and Sikhs come alive just by gazing on it -- it gladdens them deep in the heart.
Some cannot yet see that greatness, and cannot yet enjoy the good in others -- and their ill-will only tires them out.
What can anyone's grumbling change? The Guru is in love with the True One.
Whatever pleases the Creator grows greater day by day, while grumbling wears itself out on its own.
The fourth numbered Pauri (Guru Ram Das), and the Vaar's clearest statement of the slander motif. Nindak (the fault-finder) cannot see the greatness -- which is treated not as wickedness to be punished but as a limitation that harms only the one carrying it: jhakh jhakh marai lokaa-ee, the grumbling exhausts itself. Set against it, the steady law: je gal kartay bhaavai saa nit nit charhai savaa-ee -- what is aligned with reality grows. Ill-will unravels on its own; nothing real needs to defend itself.
When someone puts others down, who do you think it hurts the most in the end?
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