Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the Maker behind everything that happens, able to do anything at all — and there is truly no other but You.
You yourself shaped the whole world, and in time You gather it back again.
One single Word moves through everything there is; whatever You bring about, comes to pass.
The One blesses those who turn toward the teaching, and so they find their way home.
With a full heart I hold the One close — so let everyone sing out together: blessed, blessed, blessed is the guide who leads us from darkness into light!
The Vaar's final Pauree (the twenty-ninth) ends the whole ballad on a great chord of praise. Its opening — mai tujh bin avar na ko-ee, "without You there is no other at all" — is a direct echo of Ik Onkar: not one god among many, but Oneness as the only reality. Sabh iko sabad varatdaa — "one single Word pervades everything" — gathers the Vaar's whole vision into a line. And the closing Dhan Dhan Dhan gur so-ee — the threefold "Blessed, blessed, blessed" — is not flattery of a person but the overflowing gratitude of a heart that has been led from darkness into light, which is what guru means. The colophon Sudhu ("correct/verified") simply marks the Vaar as complete and true.
The whole long song ends not with a warning but with "blessed, blessed, blessed" — pure gratitude. What are three things you feel thankful for right now?
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