Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Beloved is the very treasure-house of devotion, handing out its gifts freely.
It draws some into loving service and crowns them with honor.
It sits in the deepest stillness, the storehouse of everything good.
Even your love for the One is a gift the One gave you.
Bhagat bhandaar means the treasure-house of devotion. Devotion is loving attention to the One. We often think we have to build that love by ourselves. This line says something freeing. The love itself comes out of the One's own treasure-house, handed out as a gift.
Think of a child who draws a birthday card for a parent, using crayons and paper the parent bought. The love is real. And the crayons came from the one being loved.
The One also sits in taarhee, deep, still absorption, like a quiet lake with no ripples. And the One is gunee nidhaan, the storehouse of every good quality. Every kindness and every bit of goodness is drawn from there.
What good quality in you feels less like something you made and more like a gift?
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