Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The ones who have truly come to know what is real melt right into that reality. They sing the One's good qualities and speak only truth.
O Nanak, says Guru Amar Das, those soaked in the **Naam** become wonderfully free — not pulled around by every craving. They find a deep, still calm right inside their own true home, without going anywhere at all.
The closing verse gathers everything into stillness. Those who know the Real melt into the Real.
Jin sach jaataa say sach samaanay — those who know the Truth are absorbed in Truth. Sach means the Truth, the Real One. Knowing the One isn't collecting facts, like learning about a city from a map. It is more like sugar dissolving in water. You are soaked so deep (rang raatay, all through this shabad) that the knower disappears into what is known. Their speech follows by itself: sach vakhaanay, they speak truth. A heart full of the Real has nothing false left to say.
Next comes a word that is easy to misread: bairaagee. It often means someone who has stepped away from worldly life. Sikh tradition reads it as freedom lived inside everyday life, honoring the grihast, the householder with family and work. So this bairaagee hasn't run off to a forest. They live right in the world, but the world doesn't grab them. Naam ratay bairaagee — soaked in the Name, and so free. When your heart is full of the One, the world loses its desperate grip. You can hold everything lightly, because you are anchored to the one thing that matters.
The last picture is the loveliest: nij ghar taarhee laavani-aa — in their own home, they sink into deep stillness. Nij ghar, "one's own true home," is the inner self where the One always lives. Taarhee is a deep, absorbed stillness. The whole shabad — the hidden One, the lost wanderer, refuge, union — arrives not at a far-off heaven but back home, inside. Deep meditation isn't escaping the world. It's returning to where you already are. The treasure was home all along, waiting to be noticed.
Can you imagine being fully in your everyday life — school, family, friends — and yet carrying a quiet stillness inside that nothing can shake? What might help you find a little of that?
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