Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
People eat and enjoy and take, day after day, and the One’s storehouses never run low — there is always more.
So many people keep the One in mind, more than anyone could ever count. The gift is endless, and the number of hearts it reaches is endless too.
A "Giver keeps giving" Shalok, echoing a favourite Gurbani theme: khaahi kharch (they eat and spend) yet bhandaar (the warehouses / storehouses) are na khootat — never exhausted. Abundance is the nature of the Source; it does not deplete by being drawn on. The second line — jape-eh... naanak ganee na jaahi ("so many chant, they cannot be counted") — mirrors the infinite supply with an infinite response: countless hearts turning toward the Name. For children, "chant the Name" is framed positively as keep the One in mind, never as empty repetition. The Shalok's whole feeling is generosity without limit on both sides.
What does it feel like to imagine a kind of giving that never, ever runs out?
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