Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By the kindness of the good, my clinging and my confusion melt away. Learning humbly from true-hearted people — sitting low and letting it change me — is itself a whole way of living rightly.
When good people are kind, the One's own kindness seems to pour through them. My very life feels held within that goodness.
Guru Arjan says that learning humbly from good people is itself a whole way of living right.
By their kindness, moh and bharam melt away. Moh is clinging. Bharam is confusion and doubt. Then comes a picture: saaDh rayn majan sabh Dharam, "bathing in the dust of the feet of the Holy is all of Dharam," right living. The dust of the feet means sitting low, like a student near a teacher, and letting yourself be changed. It is humble learning, not putting yourself down.
Think of a young cook learning in a grandparent's kitchen. You stand close, you watch, you taste, you get flour on your hands. Being willing to learn like that is a whole way of living. Through the kindness of the good, the One's own kindness reaches us. And the last line says it plainly: saaDhaa meh ih hamree jind, "my very life is held among the good."
What's something you learned by watching a good person and quietly copying them?
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