I have seen the Lord to be on high; the Fascinating Lord is the highest of all.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Millions search on all kinds of paths, but without the teacher, none find it.
Nanak says: the One has become kind — meeting the holy, I drink in the deep essence.
The question of the previous verse is answered: "without the Guru, none find Him." All the millions searching on all their various paths come up empty without the teacher — the awakening light from beyond the searching mind (as in Shabad 28). And then, quietly, the answer arrives not as achievement but as gift: "the Lord became merciful," and then the meeting and the tasting happened. The unreachable One is not reached; it gives itself, and the seeker "drinks in the essence" (Har Ras, the direct taste). This is the resolution of the whole shabad's tension: the incomparable, unreachable One becomes available — not to the cleverest searcher, but to the one grace meets through the teacher and the company of the good.
Why might the deepest things come to you as a gift through others, rather than something you seize by searching alone?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI