ਜਿਸ ਨੋ ਨਦਰਿ ਕਰੇ ਸੋਈ ਜਨੁ ਪਾਏ ਗੁਰ ਕਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਸਮ੍ਹ੍ਹਾਲੇ ॥
jis no nadar karay so-ee jan paa-ay gur kaa sabad samHaalay.
That humble being, who is blessed by the Lord's Glance of Grace obtains Him, and contemplates the Word of the Guru's Shabad.
ਹਰਿ ਜਨ ਮਾਇਆ ਮਾਹਿ ਨਿਸਤਾਰੇ ॥
har jan maa-i-aa maahi nistaaray.
In the midst of Maya, the Lord's servant is emancipated.
ਨਾਨਕ ਭਾਗੁ ਹੋਵੈ ਜਿਸੁ ਮਸਤਕਿ ਕਾਲਹਿ ਮਾਰਿ ਬਿਦਾਰੇ ॥੪॥੧॥
naanak bhaag hovai jis mastak kaaleh maar bidaaray. ||4||1||
O Nanak, one who has such destiny inscribed upon his forehead, conquers and destroys death. ||4||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The one who receives the One's glance of grace finds the One, and holds the Guru's word close.
Right in the middle of the busy world, that servant is carried free.
Nanak says: when such grace is written into someone's story, even the fear of death loses its grip on them.
One glance of grace can turn a whole life — and it is freely given, not earned.
Nadar — the glance of grace — is the philosophy's Gurprasad: not earned, always offered, received when we stop blocking it. Maa-i-aa maahi nistaaray is the key phrase: freedom is found inside the world, not by escaping it. Death's defeat, at the close, is freedom from fear.
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