Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I serve my True Teacher with a single, undivided mind — not with one foot in and one foot out. My whole consciousness is focused here.
For those who have found it, the True Teacher is both the destination and the road. The sacred place of pilgrimage is inside the relationship.
There is no longer a need to go anywhere else to find what you came here looking for.
Guru Amar Das (1479–1574) was the Third Guru of the Sikh lineage. He came to his teacher — Guru Angad Dev Ji — at the age of 62, after decades of sincere but incomplete seeking through Hindu pilgrimage and ritual. When he found the living teacher, everything changed.
This shabad carries that personal history: the Guru — the living connection with the divine — IS the sacred shrine of pilgrimage. You don't go to a river. You go to the teaching. And in the teaching, you find the One you were seeking everywhere else.
Siree Raag, Third Mehl marks the shift from Guru Nanak's voice to Guru Amar Das's. His tone is more systematic, more pedagogical — shaped by his role as teacher and organizer of the early Sikh community. Where Guru Nanak often sings with fierce originality, Guru Amar Das tends to build structures of understanding, pauri by pauri.
Is there a person — a teacher, a mentor, a role model — who has served as a kind of 'sacred place' for you? Someone in whose presence you found something you couldn't find on your own?
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