Sikhism·Raag Maajh·Shabad 85
Verse 4 of 9

He Fulfills the Deep Wish Beneath the Small Ones

ਸਗਲ ਮਨੋਰਥ ਤੂੰ ਦੇਵਣਹਾਰਾ ॥
sagal manorath tooN dayvanhaaraa.
You are the Fulfiller of all the mind's desires.
ਭਗਤੀ ਭਾਇ ਭਰੇ ਭੰਡਾਰਾ ॥
bhagtee bhaa-ay bharay bhandaaraa.
Your treasures are overflowing with love and devotion.
ਦਇਆ ਧਾਰਿ ਰਾਖੇ ਤੁਧੁ ਸੇਈ ਪੂਰੈ ਕਰਮਿ ਸਮਾਵਣਿਆ ॥੩॥
da-i-aa Dhaar raakhay tuDh say-ee poorai karam samaavani-aa. ||3||
Showering Your Mercy, You protect those who, through perfect destiny, merge into You. ||3||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

You fill the heart's deepest wishes — the ones underneath all the smaller wants.

Your storehouses overflow, not with gold, but with love. And in your mercy you wrap your protection around those who, drawn by their truest story, melt into you.

The wishes the One truly fulfills are the deep ones beneath all the smaller wants — and its bottomless treasure isn't gold but love.
The deeper layer

Having learned to see the One everywhere, the song now turns to what the One does for the heart that has found it.

Sagal manorath too dayvanhaaraa — You are the One who fulfills all the mind's desires. Manorath means a wish of the heart. Read this carefully. It isn't a promise that the One is a vending machine for every passing want. The wishes truly met are the deepest ones: the longing for peace, for meaning, for the One. Surface wants never end and never satisfy — the new game is boring in a week. The deep want, once met, satisfies completely.

Where does that fulfillment come from? Bhagtee bhaa-ay bharay bhandaaraa — Your storehouses overflow with love and devotion. Bhandaaraa means storehouse. As in nearby songs, the One's real wealth isn't gold. It is bhagti, devotion, and the stores never run out. There's never a shortage of the one thing the heart needs most.

The verse closes on grace and coming home: da-i-aa Dhaar raakhay tuDh say-ee — showering mercy, You protect them. Da-i-aa means mercy, freely given. Poorai karam samaavani-aa — through perfect destiny, they merge into You. Here karam means the gift of destiny. It isn't cold fate. It's the gentle truth that the pull you feel toward the One is itself that destiny unfolding. A heart drawn to melt into the One isn't earning anything. It is being gathered home by a mercy that was reaching for it all along.

A Question to Sit With

Underneath all your smaller wants, what is the one deep desire that, if met, would actually satisfy you?

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