ਸਚਾ ਸਾਹੁ ਸਚੇ ਵਣਜਾਰੇ ਓਥੈ ਕੂੜੇ ਨਾ ਟਿਕੰਨਿ ॥
sachaa saahu sachay vanjaaray othai koorhay naa tikann.
True is the Banker, and True are His traders. The false ones cannot remain there.
ਓਨਾ ਸਚੁ ਨ ਭਾਵਈ ਦੁਖ ਹੀ ਮਾਹਿ ਪਚੰਨਿ ॥੧੮॥
onaa sach na bhaav-ee dukh hee maahi pachann. ||18||
They do not love the Truth - they are consumed by their pain. ||18||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
True is the Banker — the One who keeps life's great marketplace — and true are the traders; the false cannot stay there.
They do not love the Truth, so they are eaten up by their own pain.
Only the true can stay in the True One's market.
sachaa saahu sachay vanjaaray — the True Banker and the true traders; othai koorhay naa tikann — the false (koorh) cannot hold their place. A marketplace metaphor: only what is true is accepted as good currency.
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