Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the true Maker. Your storehouses overflow, not with gold or jewels, but with love and devotion.
The ones who turn toward the teaching receive the **Name**. Their hearts fill up so completely that they slip, easily and naturally, into deep, still peace.
This one says the One's treasure is love, and there's always more of it.
The talk with the True Creator goes on: toon aapay sachaa sirjanhaaraa — You Yourself are the True Maker. And the picture is of plenty. Bhagtee bharay tayray bhandaaraa — Your bhandaaraa, storehouses, are full to overflowing with bhagti, loving devotion. Not with money, but with love. This changes what we think riches are. The richest thing in all the world isn't gold. It is love, and the One's supply never runs low. Think of a kitchen at the gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, where the langar, the free meal, keeps coming no matter how many people sit down. There's always enough grace to go around.
From that full store, gurmukh naam milai — the gurmukh, the one who faces the light, receives the Naam, the Name. It isn't handed out in tiny portions to people who have earned it. And what does it do? Man bheejai — the mind gets soaked, filled up with joy.
Then: sahj samaaDh lagaavani-aa — they slip into samadhi, deep stillness, with sahaj, natural ease. That little word matters. Many people have thought deep stillness was a prize won only by years of hard effort: strict training, controlling the breath, pulling away from life. Guru Ram Das says the gurmukh slips into it easily, not by straining but by being filled up. When the heart is soaked in the Name, the stillness just happens. It's like how sleep comes when you're tired, or how water goes still once you stop stirring it. The deepest stillness turns out to come from love, not from working hard to win it.
Have you noticed how the deepest stillness tends to arrive on its own, not when you force it?
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