Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One's humble servants stand tall, and so does everything they say; when they speak, it's for others' good.
Whoever listens to them with real trust is blessed — grace rains down and carries them across.
The shabad opens by honoring the speech of the humble. Their words are "exalted" because they are spoken "for the benefit of others" — not to impress, sell, or win, but to help. And listening itself becomes a doorway: those who hear "with faith and devotion" are carried across. Words aimed at others' good, received with trust, become a channel of grace. Speech is treated here as sacred infrastructure.
Whose words have genuinely helped carry you? What made you able to really hear them?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI