ਦਾਮੋਦਰ ਦਇਆਲ ਆਰਾਧਹੁ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਕਰਤ ਸੋੁਹਾਵੈ ॥
daamodar da-i-aal aaraaDhahu gobind karat sohaavai.
Worship and adore the Merciful Lord God; chanting the Name of the Lord of the Universe, you shall be embellished and exalted.
ਕਹੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਸਭ ਕੀ ਹੋਇ ਰੇਨਾ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਦਰਸਿ ਸਮਾਵੈ ॥੨॥੪੮॥੭੧॥
kaho naanak sabh kee ho-ay raynaa har har daras samaavai. ||2||48||71||
Says Nanak, whoever becomes the dust of all, merges in the Blesed Vision of the Lord, Har, Har. ||2||48||71||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold close the kind and gracious One; keep the Name on your lips and your whole life turns beautiful.
Nanak says, become humble enough to be the dust under everyone's feet — thinking yourself no higher than anyone — and you melt right into the sight of the One.
The humblest heart, thinking itself no higher than anyone, melts into the One.
Damodar and Gobind are names for the One who keeps the whole universe. Sabh kee ho-ay raynaa — becoming the dust of all — is a radical humility that levels every hierarchy; from there one samaavai, merges, in daras, the seeing. Humility is the doorway, not a defeat.
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