Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you serve the Guru, peace comes. And the Husband Himself adorns you — with the ease and wisdom of sahaj.
In that truth, the bride truly enjoys the Husband's presence. The love between them goes deep.
Becoming Gurmukh — oriented toward the teaching — she comes to know the One. Through the Guru, she lives beautifully.
Har var sahj seegaar — the Husband Lord adorns her with sahaj (intuitive ease, effortless equilibrium). The contrast with Pauri 0 is exact: in Pauri 0, she adorns herself without the Husband — the adornment is wasted. In Pauri 2, the Husband does the adorning. The source of genuine adornment is the Husband, not the bride's own effort.
This is Guru Nanak's consistent teaching: the self cannot adorn itself into liberation. The Guru's service (not servitude, but genuine orientation toward the teaching) creates the conditions in which the Husband Himself completes the adornment — with sahaj rather than with gold.
Sach maanay pir seejrhi — truly enjoying the Husband's bed. The word sach (genuinely, truly) before maanay (enjoys) is doing real work: the enjoyment is actual, not performed. The union is real, not ceremonial. And guurha het pi-aar — the love is guurha, deep, intense, dyed through.
Gurmukh jaan sinjaaaneeai — as Gurmukh, she comes to know and recognize. Knowledge of the divine is not acquired by intellectual study but by the orientation of the Gurmukh — the one whose face is turned toward the teaching. Meeting the Guru produces the gun chaar (virtuous, beautiful life) that follows from genuine knowing.
What has the Guru's teaching given you that you could not have given yourself?
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