Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Meeting the True Guru, all my sufferings have ended. The Peace of the Lord has come to dwell within my mind.
The Divine Light illuminates my inner being. I am lovingly absorbed in the One.
Meeting with the Holy Saint, my face is radiant. I have realized my pre-ordained destiny.
This shabad has the quality of personal testimony: Guru Arjan is not teaching abstractly — he is reporting what has happened to him. Sab dukh nathay (all sufferings have ended). Not reduced, not managed. Ended.
The anter parkash (Divine Light illuminating within) — the inner illumination is the sign of genuine meeting with the Guru. The face becomes radiant (mukh ujlaa), the destiny is fulfilled (pooraa paa-i-aa).
The movement: meeting Guru → suffering ends → peace comes → inner light → absorption → radiant face → destiny realized. This is the full arc of transformation in a single shabad.
Have you ever had an encounter — with a person, a teaching, a moment — that ended something in you rather than just reducing or managing it? What ended?
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