ਚਉਦਹ ਭਵਣ ਤੇਰੇ ਹਟਨਾਲੇ ॥
cha-odah bhavan tayray hatnaalay.
The fourteen worlds are Your markets.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਦਿਖਾਏ ਅੰਤਰਿ ਨਾਲੇ ॥
satgur dikhaa-ay antar naalay.
The True Guru reveals them, along with one's inner being.
ਨਾਵੈ ਕਾ ਵਾਪਾਰੀ ਹੋਵੈ ਗੁਰ ਸਬਦੀ ਕੋ ਪਾਇਦਾ ॥੩॥
naavai kaa vaapaaree hovai gur sabdee ko paa-idaa. ||3||
One who deals in the Name, through the Word of the Guru's Shabad, obtains it. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every world there is — countless, spread out like busy marketplaces — belongs to You. The True Guru shows me all of them, and shows me my own inside, too.
If I trade in the Naam the way a merchant trades in goods, the Guru's Word helps me find that treasure.
The whole universe is the One's marketplace, and the truest goods are found within.
The fourteen worlds as markets is a cosmic image: all realms as the One's marketplace, and the Guru revealing both the outer worlds and the inner self. The merchant-of-the-Name metaphor recurs across this whole group of shabads.
A Question to Sit With
What are you spending your days trading for?
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