Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By true actions — by actually living from the inside out — the True One is met. And when you meet through genuine living, the teaching finds you.
Then: no more birth and death in the old sense. No more coming and going in the desperate pattern of seeking and losing.
O Nanak, they are respected at the Lord's court. Not because they performed well — but because they actually showed up.
The closing pauri resolves the shabad: the empty body of Pauri 0 becomes, through genuine action and the Guru's teaching, the vessel through which the True Lord is met. Birth and death continue biologically — but the psychological birth-and-death, the endless cycle of wanting and losing, ends.
"Respected at the Lord's court" — in the divine court (Darbar Sahib) there is no pretense. What is seen is what is real. Those who have lived truly are recognized truly.
What does living 'truly' look like for you in an ordinary day — not in big moments, but in small ones? What's one true thing you could do tomorrow?
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