Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Beautiful is any place where people who love the truth gather to sit together.
There they turn toward the all-powerful One, and whatever was harmful inside them quietly fades.
The wise ones and the old scriptures both say the same thing: the One lifts up everyone, holding no one out.
You have always loved those who love You — that is simply Your nature, in every age.
I ask for just one thing: the Name, the thing my heart and whole being long for.
This Pauri makes a place holy by who sits in it: jithai baisan saaDh jan, so thaan suhandaa — "the spot where the good gather is beautiful." Holiness here isn't built into the ground; it grows from the people. The line patit uDhaaran — "the lifter of the fallen" — is central to this whole tradition, and the hymn cites both the Saints and the Vedas as proclaiming it (sant bayd kahanda) — an expansive, welcoming claim about grace made within the hymn's own devotional frame. And bhagat vachhal — "lover of those who love" — is called God's birad: an innate, unbreakable disposition, "the way You have always been." Whatever is manda (harmful) inside a person is said to binsai, to fade — not to be punished away, but to lose its hold in good company.
What makes a place feel good to be in — the walls and furniture, or the people and how they treat each other?
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