Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The person who ends up serving the wise is the one whose deepest nature was ready for it all along.
And in the end, other than the One, there's really no other force at work behind anything.
This one says that even wanting to do good is a gift. Two ideas close the shabad.
The first: jis mastak likhi-aa likhog — the one whose mastak, forehead, has it written. This is the tradition's way of saying that being ready to serve good people is itself grace. It isn't only your own success. That keeps us humble about our own goodness. It's like a kid who loves helping in the kitchen: that eagerness was a gift before it was a skill.
The second is a big, sweeping line. Ayk bin doojaa avar na karnai jog — besides the One, there is no one else able to act. There is one Doer behind all doing. This doesn't make our effort pointless. It lifts a crushing weight: the feeling that everything depends on you alone.
Does it feel lighter or heavier to think everything depends only on you? What changes if it doesn't?
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