Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What has been written deep in you from the beginning cannot be rubbed away.
The wealth of the One's Name is the true treasure — so hold it close, always.
The closing Shalok of this batch, a couplet of the Fifth Mehl. The literal's "destiny pre-ordained cannot be erased" (Dhur likhiaa laykh) is rendered warmly — not as fixed fate but as what is "written deep in you from the beginning," the true grain of who you are. Against everything that washes off across this whole Vaar (false gilding, cheap dye, chasing possessions), the verse names the one thing that lasts: raam naam Dhan vakhro — the Name as the true wealth, the treasure the soul carries forward. "Hold it close, always" is the gentle, final counsel — meditate on it (sadaa Dhi-aa-ay), the one wealth that cannot be lost.
If you could carry only one treasure with you your whole life long, what would you want it to be — and why that one?
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