Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In the Sangat, your enemies turn into friends.
In the Sangat, you become clean, and hate cannot find a place to sit. Your feet stop wandering toward trouble.
In the Sangat, nobody looks evil to you anymore - and that is when the highest happiness arrives.
The fever of ego breaks. Selfishness drops off like a coat. How great are such companions? Only the One knows. Nanak says: they and He are woven together.
In the Sangat, enemies turn into friends, because the change happens inside you.
Walk through it slowly. First, saadhsang dusman sabh meet — all enemies become friends. Then kis si-o nahee bair — no one is hated. Then naahee ko mandaa — no one seems bad at all. Each step happens inside the one who is looking, not in the people being looked at.
The enemies did not sign a peace deal. What healed was the way of seeing that turned people into enemies. Another part of Sukhmani says the same: clear the cruelty out of your own mind, and the whole world becomes your friend.
If someone is being unkind to you or hurting you, that is never something you have to accept. Telling a grown-up you trust is always the right thing to do.
Naahee ha-o taap — the fever of ego goes away. Gurbani often calls ha-umai, the ego, a fever. A fever makes everything feel wrong and twists how you see things. It breaks not by force but by the cool of the Sangat, like a cool cloth on a hot forehead.
The verse ends at an edge the whole song keeps coming back to. Aapay jaanai saadh badaa-ee — only the One knows how great the Holy are. Naanak saadh prabhoo ban aa-ee — the Holy and the One are woven together. The final verse will say this plainly, with nothing held back.
Think of someone you dislike. How much of what you dislike is in them - and how much is in your fever?
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