Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When great souls give advice, they often say it to one person, about one moment — yet the whole world can pick it up and use it. Truth spoken to anyone belongs to everyone.
When you turn toward the Guru, you feel a deep awe, and in that awe you begin to know your own self.
By grace, the loud, grabbing part of you goes quiet — and then, at last, your mind is content with itself, needing nothing extra to feel whole.
Nanak says: if a person has no steady trust in their own heart, what can their fine words about wisdom mean?
Wisdom spoken to one person belongs to the whole world.
Parthaa-ay saakhee — great souls speak in saakhee (illustrative stories, tied to a particular occasion), yet the lesson is saajhee sagal jahaanai, shared by the whole world. This is a small manifesto for how scripture is meant to travel: spoken to one, alive for all. Bha-o here is awe, the deep reverence that opens the heart. Jeevat marai — “dying while alive” — is the softening of ego (haumai) while fully living, not a morbid idea; the fruit is man hee tay man maanai, the mind coming to rest in itself. The closing note draws the mannai line: partitee, inner conviction, is what gives words their weight — not cleverness but lived trust.
Has something someone said to another person ever felt like it was secretly meant for you too?
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