Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everyone and everything belongs to You, dear True One — *everyone*. When a person meets the Guru and turns toward the light, their endless round of coming and going comes to an end. When it pleases You, You absorb us into the Name; it is You Yourself who inspires us to hold the Name in our hearts.
This one says everyone belongs to the One, and the wandering stops when you see that.
Sabh ko sachay har jee-o tayraa — everyone belongs to You, dear True One. Everyone. Not only the devotees, not only the good people, not only "our group." Every single being is the One's own. This is Ik Onkar, "there is One," with its arms open wide. Nobody is outside the family. The person you look up to and the person who annoys you, the saint and the one still struggling, all belong to Him. If everyone belongs to the One, there is no "them." There is only one big belonging.
This also changes how we hear the verse before. That one told apart real devotees from people who only claim the name. Now the song opens wide again: even so, all belong to the One. The difference was never that the One loves some and rejects others. It is only whether a person has noticed they belong yet. Gurmukh milai taa chookai fayraa — when you meet the Guru and turn toward the light, the fayraa, the round of restless coming and going, ends. It's like a child who thinks they're lost in a big store, then looks up and sees their parent was standing right there. The worry ends, not because they were let back in, but because they see they were never really out.
The last lines give all the credit to grace. Jaa tuDh bhaavai taa naa-ay rachaaveh — when it pleases You, You bring us into the Name. Toon aapay naa-o japaavani-aa — You Yourself move us to repeat and remember the Name. We don't join the Name by our own cleverness. It happens when it pleases the One's will. We don't even make up our own remembering; He inspires it. This is humble and comforting at once. Humble, because none of it is my prize. Comforting, because if everyone belongs to Him and He does the turning, no one is truly lost. The same grace that turned anyone can turn anyone. Real devotion is rare, and everyone belongs, and it is all grace.
If you really believed every single person belongs to the same One — with no "them" anywhere — who would you have to stop seeing as an outsider?
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