Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
He has not considered my merits and demerits.
This is God's Own Nature.
Hugging me close in His Embrace, He protects me — and now, even the hot wind does not touch me.
One of the most theologically concentrated pauris in the ashtapadee. Gunaa kaa gaahaak-u, augun-aa nah — He is the buyer of virtues (gunaa kaa gaahaak-u — the purchaser, the appreciator of qualities/virtues); He does not count the faults (augun-aa nah). But more: gaahaak-u means a customer, a buyer — one who actively seeks out and values what you have. The Lord is the one who specifically seeks out even the smallest virtue, while refusing to count the faults.
Ih Prabh kaa bani-aai — this is God's Own Nature (bani-aai — His own constitution, His own being). Not God's generosity on a good day; His bani-aai, His fundamental nature. He cannot help seeking out virtues and overlooking faults — it is what He is. This is the most intimate statement of divine grace in the composition.
Ankal-u laai-aa, raakhay Aap-ay, garam vaao na laagee — hugging me close in His Embrace (ankal-u laai-aa — embraced, pulled close), He Himself protects me; even the hot wind (garam vaao) does not touch me. The hot wind of Shabad 125 Pauri0 returns: there, it was the hot wind of hardship that the Lord's remembrance protects against. Here it is the hot wind that the Lord's own embrace prevents — His arms around the soul, the scorching wind deflected.
What would it change in you to genuinely believe that the divine is not counting your faults — that seeking out what is good in you is the divine's actual nature?
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