Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In the Sangat, listen to the Name. In the Sangat, sing the praise. In the Sangat, let the One stay in your mind - and you will surely be carried.
In the Sangat, the One begins to taste sweet - and you start seeing Him looking out of every heart.
In the Sangat, following the flow stops feeling like obeying and starts feeling like dancing. Freedom arrives.
In the Sangat, the old diseases of the heart are cured. Nanak says: meeting such people comes by the highest fortune there is.
In the Sangat, the things you should do start to become things you want to do.
The verse gathers the practices. Sun-o har naa-o — listen to the Name. Har kay gun gaa-o — sing the praises. Na man tay bisrai — keep the One in mind. Then it plants them all in one garden: the Sangat. Alone, each practice is possible. Together with good people, each one becomes easy. That easiness is sahaj, a natural flow that runs all through Sukhmani.
Two changes show how deep this goes. First, lagai prabh meethaa — the One starts to taste sweet. It is the shift from "I have to" to "I want to." Think of practicing piano because you must, and then one day playing because you love it. No amount of willpower can fake that change.
Second, ghat ghat deethaa — the One is seen in every heart. This is Ik Onkar, "there is One," becoming something you can actually see.
Saadhsang bha-ay aagi-aakaaree — we become obedient. This belongs with Hukam, the flow of existence, rightly understood. It is not giving in to orders. It is finding that your way and the river's way finally agree.
The last line, naanak saadh bhaytay sanjog, says that meeting the Holy comes by great good fortune. This is Sukhmani's humble reminder. Even finding the Sangat was a gift.
Is there something good you once did because you had to, that you now do because you love it? What changed?
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