Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Nanak says: the people who serve their True Guru are true through and through — there is nothing fake in them.
They stay soaked in the Name like a cloth soaked in color, and their long, tiring back-and-forth finally comes to rest.
Those who serve the True Guru come to rest in the Naam.
A short shalok promising rest. Say jan sachay parvaan — those who serve the True Guru are sachay, true (the sach of Gurbani: made of what lasts). The gift is chookaa aavan jaan — the coming and going ends: the long, tiring back-and-forth comes to rest in peace. “Absorbed in the Name” is given the dyer's image — cloth soaked through with color — a recurring Gurbani figure for being wholly steeped in the divine.
What is something that makes your restless, running-around mind finally settle down?
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