Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Name of the Lord is the true abstinence (*brahmacharya*), the true truthfulness, and the true self-restraint.
The Gurmukh practices this. Serving the True Teacher, they find the peace of the soul.
What the three classical spiritual disciplines point toward — the Name is their actual fulfillment.
The three classical forms of spiritual discipline — brahmacharya (abstinence), satya (truthfulness), and sanjam (self-restraint) — are here subsumed in the Naam. Not dismissed: they are real practices. But their goal — inner purity, alignment with truth, mastery of the senses — is what the Naam produces.
This is consistent with Guru Amar Das's pattern: he doesn't negate classical practices but shows what they were actually pointing toward, and where that thing can be found more directly.
What practices in your life feel like they're pointing toward something — a quality or state they're trying to produce? Have you found the thing they're pointing toward yet?
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