Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Think of your body as a beautiful coat the One made just for you — and then embroidered all over with love and devotion.
Fine silk is woven right into it, in more patterns and colors than you could count.
But only a rare person stops to look closely, and quietly wonders inside: who made this, and why?
And even that wondering is a gift — it wakes up in you when the One awakens it.
Nanak says: turned toward the Guru, you come to know that the One is true.
Your body is a robe the One made and stitched with love, and even noticing it is a gift.
Har cholee dayh savaaree — the Lord has fashioned the body as a cholee, a robe or coat, and stitched devotion into its very cloth (bhagat kar), threading it with silk (paat) “in so many ways and fashions.” The image gives children a warm, tactile sense of the body as a made and cared-for thing, not a burden. The turn is bibayk — discernment, the inward looking that notices the maker behind the made. And this discernment is not self-made: jis bujhaa-ay aap har — one understands only what the One awakens in them. That is Gurprasad in miniature: the noticing itself is grace, not achievement.
If your body is a coat someone made for you, what would you want to say to the one who made it?
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