Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Love the One through whom you enjoy every good thing.
Do not forget that One even for a moment, Nanak; it shaped this beautiful body.
A simple logic of gratitude: love the One "through whom you enjoy all pleasures." Every good thing you have ever enjoyed came through the One — so the natural response is love, and not forgetting. And the specific gift named is your own "beautiful body" — the remarkable instrument of a human life, itself a gift you did nothing to earn. Guru Arjan keeps the gratitude concrete: not abstract thankfulness, but noticing that this — your body, your enjoyments, your very capacity for pleasure — all came as gift.
What good things in your life did you not actually earn — that simply came to you as gifts? How does noticing them feel?
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