Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Turn toward the One who carries the Name in hand, for that is the One truly worth turning to.
Live at ease here, and this same support goes right on with you wherever you go.
So build your inner home out of true, good living, resting on the firm, unshakable pillars of doing right.
Lean on the shelter of the One, who holds you steady in both the inner life and the everyday world.
I take hold of the One and rest gratefully in that presence.
The Pauri gives building instructions for a life. Ghar banDhhu sach Dharam kaa — "build your house of true righteousness" — with thamm (pillars) that are ahlai, unshakable. It is a picture of character as architecture: a self built on honest, right living stands up in weather. The lovely double word deen dunee-aa — "faith and world," the spiritual and the material — insists these aren't rivals; the One supports you in both. This is a householder's spirituality: not fleeing daily life, but building a strong, honest one. The closing image, humbly pakrhay charan (grasping the feet), is the posture of resting your full weight on something trustworthy.
If your character were a building, what would it be resting on? What "pillars" would you want to make stronger?
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