Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The greatness of the True Guru is dear to the hearts of the Guru's Sikhs.
The One keeps the True Guru's honor, and it rises higher day by day.
The Highest One lives in the heart of the True Guru, and the Highest One is the Guru's rescue.
The One is the strength and the support of the True Guru, and everyone comes to bow before the Guru.
Those who have gazed on my True Guru with love have every wrong lifted from them.
Their faces are bright in the One's presence, and they receive great honor.
Nanak says: I would gladly take the dust of the feet of the Guru's Sikhs — my brothers and sisters.
The Guru's greatness comes from the One who lives inside the Guru, and everyone who loves the Guru is one family.
This Shalok by Guru Ram Das praises the teaching and the people who love it. Its heart is gur satgur kai man paarbarahm hai. That means the Highest One, paarbarahm, lives in the teacher's mind. The teaching's power is not its own. It is the One's power flowing through it, like water through a pipe.
A line heard often in this song comes back here: nit charhai savaa-ee, honor that "rises day by day." What is lined up with truth keeps growing on its own.
The ending shows humility: mangai Dhoorh tin, "asking for the dust of their feet." It is the same old saying heard before. It does not mean putting yourself down. It means honoring fellow seekers so much that you would happily take the lowest place beside them.
Notice too the warm words mayray bhaa-ee, "my brothers and sisters." Everyone seeking together is one family.
Why do you think honoring others — even taking the lowest place beside them — can be a sign of real strength rather than weakness?
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