Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Meditation, hard practice, self-control, kindness and right living come to those You give them to.
The one whose inner fire You put out remembers the Naam.
The One who knows every heart, beyond all reach, teaches us to see everyone with one eye.
Leaning on the Sangat, we fall in love with the One.
Faults are cut away, the face shines bright, and through the Naam we are carried across.
The fear of birth and death is cut away, and we are not born again and again.
The One pulls us out of the deep, dark pit and puts the hem of His robe into our hands.
Nanak says: the One forgives, joins us to Himself, and holds us close in a hug.
Even our goodness is a gift, and the One lifts us up.
Jap tap sanjam da-i-aa Dharam jis deh so paa-ay — prayer, hard practice, self-control, kindness, and right living come to those the One gives them to. Da-i-aa means kindness. Dharam means living rightly. Even the good in us is a gift.
Jis bujhaa-ihi agan aap — the One cools the fires inside us, like anger and greed.
Then comes a great line. Ik darisat dikhaa-ay — the One teaches us to see everyone with the same eye. No favorites. No enemies. This is being nirvair, free of hate, as the Mool Mantar at the start of the Guru Granth Sahib describes the One. Here it is lived out.
SaaDhsangat kai aasrai — leaning on the Sangat, people gathered together to remember the One, we fall in love with the One.
AnDh koop tay kaadhi-an — the One pulls us out of a deep, dark well. Picture being stuck in a low, gloomy place. A hand reaches down and lifts you right out.
Rakhay gal laa-ay — and then the One hugs us close, faults and all. Hope and equality come together here.
Who is someone hard for you to see kindly, and what might change if you did?
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