Sikhism·Raag Gauree·Shabad 264
Verse 5 of 9

With the One Within, Clinging Becomes Calm Love

ਮੋਹ ਕੁਟੰਬ ਸਿਉ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਨ ਹੋਇ ॥
moh kutamb si-o pareet na ho-ay.
Emotional attachment to family does not exist,
ਜਾ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਵਸਿਆ ਸਚੁ ਸੋਇ ॥
jaa hirdai vasi-aa sach so-ay.
when the True Lord abides within the heart.
ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਮਨੁ ਬੇਧਿਆ ਅਸਥਿਰੁ ਹੋਇ ॥
gurmukh man bayDhi-aa asthir ho-ay.
The mind of the Gurmukh is pierced through and held steady.
ਹੁਕਮੁ ਪਛਾਣੈ ਬੂਝੈ ਸਚੁ ਸੋਇ ॥੪॥
hukam pachhaanai boojhai sach so-ay. ||4||
One who recognizes the Hukam of the Lord's Command understands the True Lord. ||4||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

When the truth of the One lives in your heart, your love for family stops being an anxious clinging and becomes something calmer and freer. The heart is quietly fixed on what's real and grows steady. And when you recognize the flow of existence — the way life actually moves — you understand the True.

When the One lives in your heart, anxious clinging becomes calm love, and reading life's flow makes you steady.
The deeper layer

When the True One lives in your heart, anxious clinging turns into calm love.

Moh kutamb si-o preet na ho-ay — moh is clinging attachment. Toward family, it falls away when the True One lives inside. Notice what goes: the tight, worried grip, not love itself. Think of a parent who stops hovering and simply trusts, and loves just as much.

Man baydhi-aa asthir ho-ay — the heart is "pierced through," like a bead held on its string. It becomes asthir, steady.

Then the high point. Hukam pachhaanai boojhai sach — whoever recognizes the hukam, the flow of existence, understands the True One. Steadiness comes from being in tune with how life really moves.

A Question to Sit With

What's the difference between loving someone and anxiously clinging to them?

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