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A Life That Bears Fruit

ਭਗਤਾ ਮਨਿ ਆਨੰਦੁ ਭਇਆ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮਿ ਰਹੇ ਲਿਵ ਲਾਏ ਰਾਮ ॥
bhagtaa man aanand bha-i-aa har naam rahay liv laa-ay raam.
The minds of the devotees are filled with bliss; they remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord's Name.
ਗੁਰਮੁਖੇ ਮਨੁ ਨਿਰਮਲੁ ਹੋਆ ਨਿਰਮਲ ਹਰਿ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਏ ਰਾਮ ॥
gurmukhay man nirmal ho-aa nirmal har gun gaa-ay raam.
The mind of the Gurmukh is immaculate and pure; she sings the Immaculate Praises of the Lord.
ਨਿਰਮਲ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਏ ਨਾਮੁ ਮੰਨਿ ਵਸਾਏ ਹਰਿ ਕੀ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਬਾਣੀ ॥
nirmal gun gaa-ay naam man vasaa-ay har kee amrit banee.
Singing His Immaculate Praises, she enshrines in her mind the Naam, the Name of the Lord, and the Ambrosial Word of His Bani.
ਜਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹ ਮਨਿ ਵਸਿਆ ਸੇਈ ਜਨ ਨਿਸਤਰੇ ਘਟਿ ਘਟਿ ਸਬਦਿ ਸਮਾਣੀ ॥
jinH man vasi-aa say-ee jan nistaray ghat ghat sabad samaanee.
Those humble beings, within whose minds it abides, are emancipated; the Shabad permeates each and every heart.
ਤੇਰੇ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਵਹਿ ਸਹਜਿ ਸਮਾਵਹਿ ਸਬਦੇ ਮੇਲਿ ਮਿਲਾਏ ॥
tayray gun gaavahi sahj samaaveh sabday mayl milaa-ay.
Singing Your Glorious Praises, they merge naturally into You, O Lord; through the Shabad, they are united in Union with You.
ਨਾਨਕ ਸਫਲ ਜਨਮੁ ਤਿਨ ਕੇਰਾ ਜਿ ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਮਾਰਗਿ ਪਾਏ ॥੨॥
naanak safal janam tin kayraa je satgur har maarag paa-ay. ||2||
O Nanak, their lives are fruitful; the True Guru places them on the Lord's Path. ||2||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

The hearts of those who love the One are filled with bliss; they stay lovingly tuned to the Name. Facing the Teacher, the heart turns spotless and sings clear, clean praises.

Singing those spotless praises, it settles the Name inside — the nectar-sweet Word of the One.

Those in whose hearts it lives are carried across, and the Word spreads through every heart. Singing Your praises, they melt naturally into You; through the Word they are joined. Their lives truly bear fruit — the ones the Teacher sets on the One's road.

A life bears real fruit when it is set on the road toward the One.
The deeper layer

safal janam tin kayraa — their janam, their birth/life, is safal, fruitful: a life that actually comes to something. The measure of a fruitful life here is not achievement but being placed har maarag, on the One's road, by the Teacher. amrit banee — the Word as nectar; taking it in makes the mind nirmal, spotless. sahj samaaveh — they merge naturally, in sahaj, effortless ease. Bliss, aanand, is described as the natural climate of a heart tuned to the Name.

A Question to Sit With

What would make you feel that a day, or a life, truly bore good fruit?

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