Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Dressed in truth and contentment, and in love, I am made ready to belong to the One. The Teacher himself brings me to this meeting.
I sing the Guru's words together with good people. Singing them, I reach the highest place, and I am made beautiful.
Anger loosens its grip, and clinging melts. Pretending and doubt fall away.
The pain of ego lifts, and real peace arrives. I feel whole and well again.
Through the Teacher's grace I have come to know the One, the deep ocean of every good quality.
Truth, contentment and love are the real wedding clothes.
This song, a chhant, uses a wedding picture. A chhant is a joyful song, often sung at weddings. Here the soul is the bride, and the Guru arranges her marriage to the One. Sat santokh kar bhaa-o — truth (sat), contentment (santokh) and love (bhaa-o) are what she wears. The getting ready is all on the inside.
Singing Gurbani with good people, old habits drop away: anger, mamtaa (clinging to "mine"), pakhand (pretending) and doubt. The pain of ego goes, and the whole self feels well again. Think of cleaning your room before a guest you love arrives. Here, it is the heart that gets tidied. The poet ends by knowing the One as gunee gaheeraa — a deep ocean of every good quality.
What inside you gets lighter when you spend time with good company?
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