Sikhism·Siree Raag·Shabad 45
Verse 4 of 5

By Perfect Good Fortune, One Meets the True Guru

ਪੂਰੈ ਭਾਗਿ ਸਤਗੁਰੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਜਾ ਭਾਗੈ ਕਾ ਉਦਉ ਹੋਇ ॥
poorai bhaag satgur milai jaa bhaagai kaa ud-u ho-ay.
By perfect good fortune, one meets the True Guru, when one's destiny is awakened.
ਅੰਤਰਹੁ ਦੁਖੁ ਭ੍ਰਮੁ ਕਟੀਐ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਰਾਪਤਿ ਹੋਇ ॥
antrahu dukh bharam katee-ai sukh paraapat ho-ay.
Suffering and doubt are cut out from within, and peace is obtained.
ਗੁਰ ਕੈ ਭਾਣੈ ਜੋ ਚਲੈ ਦੁਖੁ ਨ ਪਾਵੈ ਕੋਇ ॥੩॥
gur kai bhaanai jo chalai dukh na paavai ko-ay. ||3||
One who walks in harmony with the Guru's Will shall not suffer in pain. ||3||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

By perfect good fortune, one meets the True Teacher — when one's destiny is awakened.

Suffering and doubt are cut out from within. Peace is obtained.

One who walks in harmony with the Guru's Will shall not suffer in pain.

The meeting with the true teacher is destiny's gift — and the walking that follows prevents the suffering.
The deeper layer

The meeting with the Guru is described as bhaag (good fortune, destiny) — it is not achieved through clever seeking but through the ripening of destiny. The suffering and doubt (dukh sanshay) are kateeyai — cut out, excised — through the meeting.

Walking in harmony with the Guru's Will (raha-o) — Hukam in its most personal form — is the specific practice that prevents future suffering.

A Question to Sit With

Have you ever experienced a meeting — with a person, a text, an idea — that felt fated? That arrived at exactly the right moment? What was that?

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