Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The tug-of-war of coming and going, holding on and letting go, quiets into peace when you serve the holy people.
Nanak asks: may I always keep in mind the One who holds every good thing — the true heart of the whole universe. That remembering is what steadies me.
The fruit of serving the saadh — the holy people. Tootay bandhan janam maran — the "bondage of birth and death" (the wheel of coming and going) is broken by saadh sayv, serving the holy: the calming of an inner tug-of-war. "May I never forget" means may I always keep in mind the gun nidh — the Treasure of Virtue, gobid raa-ay, the Sovereign of the universe. Serving the holy and holding the One in mind: two halves of one steadying practice.
Have you felt a kind of peace come from working together with good people toward something that matters?
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