Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
People have searched through all the old scriptures, and still no one could fully measure the worth of the One.
But whoever joins the company of those who love the truth comes to taste the joy of the One directly.
The True Name, the Name of the Creator — this is the very mine where the real jewels are found.
When it is written deep in you, you remember the One with your whole living breath.
Give me, then, the traveling-food of the True Name — for I am only Your guest here.
This Pauri stages a friendly contrast: all the study in the world — the Simritees and Shaastras, great books of learning — could not fix a price on the One, because the infinite has no price. Yet what scholarship couldn't do, saaDhsang (holy company) does: it lets you taste what can't be measured. The image of the ratnaa khaani — the "mine of jewels" — says the Name is not a single gem but an inexhaustible source. The Pauri ends with one of Gurbani's most human images: mihmaani, "I am your guest," asking for tosaa — the food a traveler packs for a journey. Life is a short visit; the Name is the food you carry for the road.
Have you ever understood something by living it that you couldn't get just by reading about it? What was it?
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