Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Please, lead me into the company of awakened hearts, into the company of the true. Once I am there, I hold the Name in my heart together with them. I listen to the story of the One, and then I speak it with my own mouth. And following the teacher's wisdom, the Name fills me up completely — I am content, I am whole.
The shabad closes by circling back to its source: Sat Sangat. Har satsangat sat purakh milaaeeai — "lead me to the true congregation and the true beings." Notice the seeker does not say "let me find it myself"; she asks to be led there. Even the company that carries the divine is itself a gift one is brought into. The whole journey is milaaeeai — being joined, being introduced, by grace.
The closing line traces a small, complete cycle of practice: kathaa sunee (listened to the story), mukh bolee (spoke it with the mouth), gurmat har naam pareechai (through the Guru's teaching, fulfilled by the Name). Listening, then speaking, then fulfillment. This is how the Naam moves through a person — it comes in through the ear in the company of others, lives on the tongue as one repeats it, and finally pareechai — satisfies, contents, completes. The word carries the sense of a hunger finally answered; the seeker is fulfilled.
So the arc resolves: the agam agochar (unreachable One) of the Rahao is reached not by climbing but by being led into the right company, kneeling in humble service (P1), having the Name planted firmly within (P2), and finally being filled and made content (P3). Signed Naanak, the lineage's one light through Guru Ram Das. The destination of all the longing turns out to be a quiet, complete fullness — not a dramatic arrival but a settled contentment in the Name.
The verse describes a small circle: listen, then speak, then be fulfilled. Is there something you've learned that way — first heard, then said yourself, until it became truly yours?
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