ਹਰਿ ਕਾ ਨਾਮੁ ਨਿਧਾਨੁ ਹੈ ਕੋਈ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਜਾਣੈ ॥
har kaa naam niDhaan hai ko-ee gurmukh jaanai.
The Name of the Lord is a treasure, known only to the few Gurmukhs.
ਨਾਨਕ ਜਿਨ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਭੇਟਿਆ ਰੰਗਿ ਰਲੀਆ ਮਾਣੈ ॥੧੫॥
naanak jin satgur bhayti-aa rang ralee-aa maanai. ||15||
O Nanak, those who meet with the True Guru, enjoy peace and pleasure. ||15||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Name is a treasure, known only to a few who face the teaching.
Nanak says: those who meet the true teaching live in peace and delight.
The Name is a real, available treasure that yields exactly what everyone is looking for — peace and delight.
The verse names the Name "a treasure" and notes, humbly, that it is "known only to the few" — not to create an elite but to prize the rarity. And the fruit is plain: those who meet the teaching "enjoy peace and pleasure." The treasure is real and available, and it yields exactly what everyone is looking for — peace and delight — to those who come to the teaching that holds it.
A Question to Sit With
What if the peace you're looking for is a 'treasure' already held somewhere close, waiting to be received?
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