Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By the Guru's grace, a rare person finds **sahaj** — that deep, natural balance. They quiet the back-and-forth pull of "two-mindedness" and fix their love on the One alone. When the One casts His glance of grace (**nadar**) on them, they sing His praises — and by that same glance, they melt into the Truth.
This verse says we sing the One's praise because the One first looked at us with love.
It brings in the song's second big idea: nadar, the glance of grace. Picture a parent looking at a child with so much love that the child lights up. The One's nadar is like that. When it falls on you, everything changes. Look at the order in the verse. "Nadar karay taa har gun gaavai" — when He looks with grace, then they sing His praise. The singing comes second. It's the answer to being looked at with love. We don't win the glance by praising. We praise because the glance came first.
The verse names what grace does. "DubiDhaa maaray ikas si-o liv laa-ay" — it ends the dubiDhaa and ties love to the One. DubiDhaa means being two-minded, a heart pulled in two directions. It's like trying to watch two shows at once and enjoying neither. That split keeps us worried and scattered. Grace ends it, not by willpower, but by pulling the whole heart so fully toward the One that there's no room for a second thing.
And there's one more gift. "Gur parsaadee sahj ko paa-ay" — by the Guru's grace, someone finds sahj. Sahj is a natural, settled calm. Sikh teachers say you can't fix yourself into it; it rises up through grace. Trying hard to be calm is its own kind of fidgeting. The split-minded self can't mend its own split. But when the glance of grace falls, the split melts, the heart settles, and calm rises by itself. Then "nadree sach samaavani-aa" — by His grace they blend into Truth, carried there by being loved.
Have you ever felt someone's loving attention land on you and instantly change how you felt? What did it stir in you?
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