Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Imagine if Truth were the very stuff of your everyday life — your food, your clothes, the ground you stand on, with the Naam holding you up. That is what it means to live from Truth completely.
The Perfect Guru brings you to the One who gives everything. Join the Sangat and you make it across the roughest waters. Something wakes up inside you, and you find yourself close to the Formless One. Nanak says: sing the One's praise, and celebrate the One's victory.
Pauri 35, Fifth Mehl (a Guru Arjan pauri set within Guru Ram Das's Vaar). A landmark line: sach khaanaa sach painnaa sach naam adhaar — Truth as food, Truth as clothing, the True Name as support. This echoes Guru Amar Das's sach bhojanaa, sach kaprhaa: Truth not as an occasional virtue but as the very material of daily life. saadhoo sangat — the Sangat — carries one across the world-ocean, a picture of life's hardest waters. japiaa nirankaar: meditating on the Formless One.
What would change if honesty were your food and clothing, not just a rule?
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