Sikhism·Raag Soohee·Shabad 105
Verse 3 of 4

Truth as My Only Jewelry

ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਕਾਰ ਕਰੇ ਧਨ ਬਾਲੜੀਏ ਹਰਿ ਵਰੁ ਦੇਇ ਮਿਲਾਏ ਰਾਮ ॥
gur kee kaar karay Dhan baalrhee-ay har var day-ay milaa-ay raam.
Serve the Guru, O young and innocent soul-bride, and he will lead to you meet your Husband Lord.
ਹਰਿ ਕੈ ਰੰਗਿ ਰਤੀ ਹੈ ਕਾਮਣਿ ਮਿਲਿ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਏ ਰਾਮ ॥
har kai rang ratee hai kaaman mil pareetam sukh paa-ay raam.
The bride is imbued with the Love of her Lord; meeting with her Beloved, she finds peace.
ਮਿਲਿ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਏ ਸਚਿ ਸਮਾਏ ਸਚੁ ਵਰਤੈ ਸਭ ਥਾਈ ॥
mil pareetam sukh paa-ay sach samaa-ay sach vartai sabh thaa-ee.
Meeting her Beloved, she finds peace, and merges in the True Lord; the True Lord is pervading everywhere.
ਸਚਾ ਸੀਗਾਰੁ ਕਰੇ ਦਿਨੁ ਰਾਤੀ ਕਾਮਣਿ ਸਚਿ ਸਮਾਈ ॥
sachaa seegaar karay din raatee kaaman sach samaa-ee.
The bride makes Truth her decorations, day and night, and remains absorbed in the True Lord.
ਹਰਿ ਸੁਖਦਾਤਾ ਸਬਦਿ ਪਛਾਤਾ ਕਾਮਣਿ ਲਇਆ ਕੰਠਿ ਲਾਏ ॥
har sukh-daata sabad pachhaataa kaaman la-i-aa kanth laa-ay.
The Lord, the Giver of peace, is realized through His Shabad; He hugs His bride close in His embrace.
ਨਾਨਕ ਮਹਲੀ ਮਹਲੁ ਪਛਾਣੈ ਗੁਰਮਤੀ ਹਰਿ ਪਾਏ ॥੩॥
naanak mahlee mahal pachhaanai gurmatee har paa-ay. ||3||
O Nanak, the bride obtains the Mansion of His Presence; through the Guru's Teachings, she finds her Lord. ||3||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Do the Teacher's work, young heart, and the Beloved is brought to you. Colored in the One's love, a heart meets its Beloved and finds peace.

Meeting the Beloved, it finds peace and melts into truth — and truth turns out to be at work everywhere.

It wears truth as its jewelry, day and night, and stays absorbed in the True One. The One, giver of peace, is known through the Word, and holds the heart close. Such a heart finds the mansion within, and through the Teacher's guidance finds the One.

The truest beauty a person can wear is being real, inside and out.
The deeper layer

sachaa seegaar karay — truth itself becomes her seegaar, her adornment and jewelry: real beauty is not the outward decoration but the inner truthfulness a person wears. kaman la-i-aa kanth laa-ay — the One holds the heart close in embrace, a warm image of grace received. mahlee mahal pachhaanai — she recognizes the mansion, the sacred, within her own being. The whole pauri quietly moves beauty from surface to substance.

A Question to Sit With

If honesty were something you wore, how would people notice you had it on?

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