Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you turn your mind toward the One, all the wrong turns of long ago fall away, and what your heart truly longs for begins to come to you. So keep your thoughts on the One who is real and lasting — the Master who feeds every single living thing, leaving no one out.
The opening line — janam janam kay kilbikh jaaveh, "the wrongs of countless lifetimes depart" — uses the language of reincarnation common in the tradition, but the deeper point is psychological and immediate: when attention turns wholly toward the One, the accumulated weight we have been carrying loosens. In this project's lens, this is not punishment being lifted by an outside judge; it is haumai, the burden of the separate self, beginning to dissolve once attention rests in the source.
The Master is named sach su-aamee — the true, real, lasting Lord — set against everything that fades. And the proof of that lasting reality is generosity: rijak sabhas ka-o dee-ay, "gives sustenance to all." Not to the deserving, not to the chosen — to all. This is the same vision of abundance that runs through Guru Arjan's Maajh shabads: the universe is not stingy at its root. The One that feeds every creature is not withholding itself from you either.
The phrase man chinday say-ee fal paavahi — "you receive the fruits your mind longs for" — is gentle but precise. It is not a promise that every wish is granted. It is that when the mind is genuinely turned toward the One, what it longs for changes, and that deeper longing is what gets met.
What do you think you want — and underneath that, what does your heart actually long for?
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