Sikhism·Raag Tukhaari·Shabad 3
Verse 3 of 4

When Virtue Comes Home

ਅਉਗਣ ਵੀਸਰਿਆ ਗੁਣੀ ਘਰੁ ਕੀਆ ਰਾਮ ॥
a-ugan veesri-aa gunee ghar kee-aa raam.
Forgetting faults and demerits, virtue and merit enter one's home.
ਏਕੋ ਰਵਿ ਰਹਿਆ ਅਵਰੁ ਨ ਬੀਆ ਰਾਮ ॥
ayko rav rahi-aa avar na bee-aa raam.
The One Lord is permeating everywhere; there is no other at all.
ਰਵਿ ਰਹਿਆ ਸੋਈ ਅਵਰੁ ਨ ਕੋਈ ਮਨ ਹੀ ਤੇ ਮਨੁ ਮਾਨਿਆ ॥
rav rahi-aa so-ee avar na ko-ee man hee tay man maani-aa.
He is All-pervading; there is no other. The mind comes to believe, from the mind.
ਜਿਨਿ ਜਲ ਥਲ ਤ੍ਰਿਭਵਣ ਘਟੁ ਘਟੁ ਥਾਪਿਆ ਸੋ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਜਾਨਿਆ ॥
jin jal thal taribhavan ghat ghat thaapi-aa so parabh gurmukh jaani-aa.
The One who established the water, the land, the three worlds, each and every heart - that God is known by the Gurmukh.
ਕਰਣ ਕਾਰਣ ਸਮਰਥ ਅਪਾਰਾ ਤ੍ਰਿਬਿਧਿ ਮੇਟਿ ਸਮਾਈ ॥
karan kaaran samrath apaaraa taribaDh mayt samaa-ee.
The Infinite, All-powerful Lord is the Creator, the Cause of causes; erasing the three-phased Maya, we merge in Him.
ਨਾਨਕ ਅਵਗਣ ਗੁਣਹ ਸਮਾਣੇ ਐਸੀ ਗੁਰਮਤਿ ਪਾਈ ॥੩॥
naanak avgan gunah samaanay aisee gurmat paa-ee. ||3||
O Nanak, then, demerits are dissolved by merits; such are the Guru's Teachings. ||3||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

When I stop dwelling on everything I have done wrong and start growing what is good, goodness itself moves into my home.

Then I see it: there is only One, filling everything — nothing and no one left out. My own mind grows quiet and sure of it.

The same One set up the seas, the land, all the worlds, and lives in every single heart. Meeting the teaching, I finally recognize that One.

This is how the teaching works: goodness quietly dissolves the old faults, the way sunlight clears a fog.

Grow what is good, and goodness itself moves in and clears the old fog.
The deeper layer

A striking reversal of the usual moral method: not fighting faults but growing virtue, so that goodness “moves into the home” and dissolves the old faults like fog. The One who made seas, land and worlds is found within every heart.

A Question to Sit With

Is it easier to fix yourself by fighting your faults, or by growing what is good? Why?

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