The Wealth of the Sangat Multiplies by Being Shared
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In the Sangat, the goodness overflows onto your whole family - friends, relatives, everyone connected to you is lifted.
The wealth found there is the kind everyone benefits from - it grows by being shared.
In the Sangat, even the judge of right and wrong becomes a servant, and the shining ones sing along.
Mistakes fly off like startled birds. Every place worth reaching comes within reach. Nanak says: a life spent in the Sangat is a life that bore fruit.
The good that comes from the Sangat spills over onto everyone around you.
The circle keeps widening. Saadh kai sang sabh kul udhaarai — your whole family is lifted. Then your friends and relatives too. One person keeping to the Sangat can quietly change a whole household. The closing verse of Japji Sahib says the same, and so does an earlier part of Sukhmani: many others are carried across alongside you.
Jis dhan tay sabh ko varsaavai — everyone benefits from that wealth. Gold gets smaller when you split it up. This wealth grows bigger when you share it, like a song that gets better the more people join in.
Saadhsang dharam raa-ay karay sayvaa — in the Sangat, Dharam Raa-ay becomes a servant. Dharam Raa-ay is the judge of right and wrong, pictured keeping the record of every deed when a life ends. Here even that judge serves. It is a very bold picture of what the Sangat does to the fear of being judged. The courtroom fades away for those who already live in love.
Saadhoo kai sang paap palaa-in — mistakes fly away, like birds startled off a field. The weight of guilt feels impossible to move when you are alone. Near good people, it scatters.
When one person in a family becomes kind and steady, what happens to everyone else in the house?
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