Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you serve the teacher with a full heart, a deep peace grows in you, and the old aches stop coming back to sting.
The whole tiring circle of grasping and losing quietly comes to an end, and the fear of endings loses its power over you.
Your mind soaks in the One and stays merged in what is truly real.
I would give anything to be like the people who walk gently in step with the true teacher's way.
Gur sayvaa tay sukh oopjai — peace is produced by service; the Vaar treats serving not as duty but as a spring of joy. The line jaman marnaa mit ga-i-aa... kaalai kaa kichh na basaa-ay ("death has no power at all") is read per the wellbeing rules not as conquering a death-demon but as the fear of endings loosening — the felt circling of the same sorrows coming to rest. The Gurmukh's mind is rav rahi-aa, saturated with the real, so external losses no longer shake the ground under them.
When have you helped someone or worked hard for something without expecting a reward? How did it feel inside afterward?
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