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Sikhism·Raag Saarang·Shabad 168
Verse 7 of 110

When the Inner Light Wakes Up

ਪਉੜੀ ॥
pa-orhee.
Pauree:
ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਚਲਤੁ ਰਚਾਇਓਨੁ ਗੁਣ ਪਰਗਟੀ ਆਇਆ ॥
gurmukh chalat rachaa-i-on gun pargatee aa-i-aa.
The Guru's Word makes the drama play itself out. Through virtue, this becomes evident.
ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਸਦ ਉਚਰੈ ਹਰਿ ਮੰਨਿ ਵਸਾਇਆ ॥
gurbaanee sad uchrai har man vasaa-i-aa.
Whoever utters the Word of the Guru's Bani - the Lord is enshrined in his mind.
ਸਕਤਿ ਗਈ ਭ੍ਰਮੁ ਕਟਿਆ ਸਿਵ ਜੋਤਿ ਜਗਾਇਆ ॥
sakat ga-ee bharam kati-aa siv jot jagaa-i-aa.
Maya's power is gone, and doubt is eradicated; awaken to the Light of the Lord.
ਜਿਨ ਕੈ ਪੋਤੈ ਪੁੰਨੁ ਹੈ ਗੁਰੁ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਮਿਲਾਇਆ ॥
jin kai potai punn hai gur purakh milaa-i-aa.
Those who hold onto goodness as their treasure meet the Guru, the Primal Being.
ਨਾਨਕ ਸਹਜੇ ਮਿਲਿ ਰਹੇ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਿ ਸਮਾਇਆ ॥੨॥
naanak sehjay mil rahay har naam samaa-i-aa. ||2||
O Nanak, they are intuitively absorbed and blended into the Name of the Lord. ||2||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

The Guru's Word sets a beautiful thing in motion inside you: goodness begins to show itself in how you live. When you speak the Guru's Bani again and again, the One comes to live in your mind.

The grip of illusion loosens, the tangle of doubt is cut clean, and a light wakes up inside you. Those who treasure goodness as their wealth meet the Guru. Nanak says: with a natural ease, they settle into the Naam and rest there.

Living the Guru's Word wakes a light that was always inside you.
The deeper layer

Pauri 2. Continual utterance of the Guru's word (gurbaanee sad uchrai), a loving remembrance. Maya's power departs (sakat ga-ee), doubt is cut (bharam kati-aa), the inner Light is awakened (siv jot jagaa-i-aa). Those whose treasure is goodness (potai punn) meet the Guru and are absorbed, with sahaj (natural ease), into the Name.

A Question to Sit With

What good thing, if you did it every day, would slowly change who you are?

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI

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