Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the True One, so vast that only You could ever match Your own greatness — greatest of all the great.
The ones You draw near are drawn near; in Your mercy You wipe the whole account clean and set it aside, so no one is kept counting old mistakes.
The one You gather in serves the teaching with a heart full to overflowing.
You are the True One, and everything I am — body, breath, and being — is already Yours. Keep me however You see fit, True One; my whole hope rests in You, greatest of the great.
The final Pauri of the entire Vaar — and it closes not on judgment but on grace, greatness, and total trust. Too sachaa saahib at vadaa — "You are the True One, so vast"; tuhi jayvad too vad vaday — only You are as great as You, greatest of the great. The line that seals the whole Vaar's teaching on accounts and ill-will is too aapay bakhas laihi laykhaa chhaday — "You Yourself forgive, and tear up the account." After a hundred pauris measuring deeds and their fruits, the closing prayer trusts that the One forgives and releases the account: in this pauri mercy, rather than tallying, has the final say. Then sabh jee-o pind chamm tayraa haday — "my soul, body, flesh and bone are all Yours" — total belonging. And the closing note is pure surrender-as-trust, not resignation: ji-o bhaavai ti-o rakh — "keep me however You see fit"; naanak man aas tayree — "my whole hope rests in You." The Vaar ends on sudh, a tag commonly rendered "correct/complete" — but its true ending is a heart handing itself over in confidence to the greatest of the great. It is the most hopeful place the Vaar could possibly land: after every hard word about bitterness and its self-defeat, the last image is a torn-up ledger and an open, trusting hand.
If someone you trusted completely tore up a list of every mistake you had ever made, how would you feel walking out of that room?
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