Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who receive Your Grace are liberated. Your servant dwells in Your Sanctuary.
Gazing upon the Blessed Vision of the Lord, I live. Without seeing Him, I would perish.
O Nanak — the servant dwells in His Sanctuary. Nanak is Your slave.
The closing pauri brings together grace, liberation, vision, and complete belonging. The drisht (vision) of the divine gives life: tis darsan dekh jeevaa — gazing upon Him I live. Without the vision, I would die. The divine is not merely pleasant or beneficial — the divine is the living's source.
"Nanak is Your slave" — Naanak daas — the habitual closing humility: not a teacher, not a scholar, not an exalted figure. A slave. The lowest relationship, chosen freely and gladly.
"Dwells in Your Sanctuary" — the Sanctuary as the permanent dwelling-place, not just refuge. The servant who has found the Sanctuary no longer needs any other dwelling.
What is it that, when you lose sight of it, makes you feel like something essential is missing — like you're not quite alive in the way you should be? What restores that aliveness when you return to it?
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