Raag Soohee, Shabad 72 - The Teaching Belongs to Everyone
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The teaching is not for one kind of person and not another. High or low, rich or poor, from any family at all - it is shared equally by everyone.
Anyone who keeps the Name and lives by it is carried through, because the One lives inside every single heart.
This one means the teaching belongs to everyone equally.
In old India, people were sorted into four groups called varnas. khatree baraahman sood vais are those four groups. Each group was treated as higher or lower than the others.
updays chahu varnaa ka-o saajhaa — the teaching is shared equally by all four. This line clears away those walls. Everyone stands level before the One.
ghat ghat naanak maajhaa — says Nanak, the One lives inside every single heart. That is why everyone is equal. Think of sunlight through a classroom window. It shines on every desk, not just the front row. Whoever keeps the Name and lives it is carried across.
What would change if you believed everyone carried the same light inside?
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