ਵਡਭਾਗੀ ਸਾਧਸੰਗੁ ਪਰਾਪਤਿ ਤਿਨ ਭੇਟਤ ਦੁਰਮਤਿ ਖੋਈ ॥
vadbhaagee saaDhsang paraapat tin bhaytat durmat kho-ee.
By great good fortune, one obtains the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy. Meeting them, evil-mindedness is eliminated.
ਤਿਨ ਕੀ ਧੂਰਿ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਦਾਸੁ ਬਾਛੈ ਜਿਨ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਰਿਦੈ ਪਰੋਈ ॥੨॥੫॥੩੩॥
tin kee Dhoor naanak daas baachhai jin har naam ridai paro-ee. ||2||5||33||
Slave Nanak yearns for the dust of the feet of those, who have woven the Lord's Name into their hearts. ||2||5||33||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By great good luck a person finds the company of the wise, and meeting them, the tangled, unkind thoughts fall away.
I would gladly be the dust at the feet of those who have woven the One’s Name right through their hearts.
Good company quietly untangles the mind.
Durmat — crooked or unkind thinking — dissolves in good company, not by force but by contact. “Dust of the feet” is the language of deep humility: valuing others’ goodness above one’s own pride. Har naam ridai paro-ee pictures the Name threaded through the heart like a needle through cloth.
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