Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the Keeper lifts someone up, know that they are great.
The One forgives whoever the One is pleased with — and that person becomes dear to the One's own heart.
Trying to compete with the One, to keep score against the Source of everything, only leaves a person confused.
The one the True Guru joins to the One sings what is wonderful, and speaks it out with joy.
Nanak says: the True One is True; whoever understands this melts right into that Truth.
Rees — rivalry, competition, keeping score against the One — goes nowhere. Jay ko os dee rees karay so moorh ajaanee: whoever competes is "confused," someone who simply hasn't understood yet (gentler for a child than "a fool," which shames). Underneath is release: greatness and forgiveness are given (jis no saahib vadaa karay), so there is nothing to compete for. At the end comes the beautiful dissolving image bujh sach samaanee — "understanding it, one melts into Truth" — the wave remembering it was always ocean. To understand the One is to be quietly absorbed into what is True, more than to master a fact.
When do you find yourself comparing or competing with others? What might it feel like to let that go?
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