mayray man har sayvihu sukh-daata su-aamee jis sayvi-ai sabhbhukh lahaasaa. ||1||
O my mind, serve the Lord, the Giver of peace; serving Him, all your hunger shall depart. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In plain words
There is One I can turn to who, in a single moment, can wipe away every mistake I have ever made.
If I turn away from the One and pin all my hopes on something smaller, even my hard work can slip through my fingers.
So I keep the One close, the Giver of peace — and when I do, every hunger inside me quietly settles.
Keep the One at your center, and even your mistakes can melt in a moment.
The deeper layer
This shabad opens Guru Ram Das's Gond with the word sayvee-ai (serve) — but serving here is not chores; it is keeping the One at the center. Kilvikh (all sins and mistakes) dissolve khin meh — in an instant — because the One does not keep a ledger against us. The closing image, sabh bhukh lahaasaa (all hunger departs), points past food to the restless hunger of the heart that only the One can fill.
A Question to Sit With
What is a mistake you are still carrying — and what would it feel like to set it down?
