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Sikhism·Raag Gauree·Shabad 283
Verse 2 of 4

Hold Your Deepest Love and Feel at Home Anywhere

ਮੁੰਧ ਨਿਮਾਨੜੀਆ ਜੀਉ ਬਿਨੁ ਧਨੀ ਪਿਆਰੇ ॥
munDh nimaanrhee-aa jee-o bin Dhanee pi-aaray.
The bride is dishonored without her Beloved Husband Lord.
ਕਿਉ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਵੈਗੀ ਬਿਨੁ ਉਰ ਧਾਰੇ ॥
ki-o sukh paarhaigee bin ur Dhaaray.
How can she find peace, without enshrining Him in her heart?
ਨਾਹ ਬਿਨੁ ਘਰ ਵਾਸੁ ਨਾਹੀ ਪੁਛਹੁ ਸਖੀ ਸਹੇਲੀਆ ॥
naah bin ghar vaas naahee puchhahu sakhee sahaylee-aa.
Without her Husband, her home is not worth living in; go and ask your sisters and companions.
ਬਿਨੁ ਨਾਮ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਿ ਪਿਆਰੁ ਨਾਹੀ ਵਸਹਿ ਸਾਚਿ ਸੁਹੇਲੀਆ ॥ ਸਚੁ ਮਨਿ ਸਜਨ ਸੰਤੋਖਿ ਮੇਲਾ ਗੁਰਮਤੀ ਸਹੁ ਜਾਣਿਆ ॥
bin naam pareet pi-aar naahee vaseh saach suhaylee-aa. sach man sajan santokh maylaa gurmatee saho jaani-aa.
Without the Naam, the Name of the Lord, there is no love and affection; but with her True Lord, she abides in peace. Through mental truthfulness and contentment, union with the True Friend is attained; through the Guru's Teachings, the Husband Lord is known.
ਨਾਨਕ ਨਾਮੁ ਨ ਛੋਡੈ ਸਾ ਧਨ ਨਾਮਿ ਸਹਜਿ ਸਮਾਣੀਆ ॥੨॥
naanak naam na chhodai saa Dhan naam sahj samaanee-aa. ||2||
O Nanak, that soul-bride who does not abandon the Naam, is intuitively absorbed in the Naam. ||2||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

A heart feels lost without the love it was made for. How can it find peace unless it holds that love close inside? Without it, no place feels like home — ask anyone who's felt it. But when the Name lives in you and truthfulness fills the mind, real closeness comes; through the teaching, the Beloved is finally known. And the soul that never lets go of the Name settles into it as naturally as breathing.

When you hold your deepest love close inside, you finally feel at home anywhere.
The deeper layer

Stanza ||2||. Bin dhanee pi-aaray... ur dhaaray — no peace without holding the Beloved in the heart. The turn comes with bin naam preet pi-aar naahee — without the Name, no true love; but sach man... gurmatee saho jaani-aa — through a truthful mind and the Guru's teaching, the Beloved is known. Naam sahj samaanee-aa — absorbed in the Name with sahaj, natural ease.

A Question to Sit With

What do you carry inside you that makes anywhere start to feel like home?

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