I am sharing my free verse translation and reflection of today’s Hukam.

1 Reality realized by Eternal Perfection’s Grace!

The Divine Teacher channels me to the Divine Reality.
My faults, my defects, are sold; remain my virtues, my merits, bal ram jeo.
Ceaselessly meditate on Nam. Constantly, incessantly enunciate Sabad, bal ram jeo.
When Sabad becomes eternally sweet, transgressions disappear.
Ego, infirmity, disappears. Fear dissolves in intuitive ease.
In awareness (The Experience) transpires. Body cradled in Sabad.
Effortlessly, Divine Knowledge, the quintessence treasure, transpires.
O Nanak: Incessant peace emerges. Eternally merged. The Fount of Purity Unifies. ||1||

Truth, contentment, create immaculate Love.
The Divine Teacher unveils engagement, bal ram jeo.
Realized beings (in) intrinsic congregation, resound Sabad, bal ram jeo.
Sabad permeates. Highest Truth realized.
Truth, contentment, compassion, wisdom, patience suffuses.
Anger, attachment, hypocrisy, superstitions, abscond.
“I” pain disappears. Perfect peace pervades. Pain-free becomes being.
O Nanak: The Divine Teacher Graces, The One Virtuous, Infinite ascertained. ||2||

Self-centered (beings) experience separation, distance.
Eternal Home unattainable, bal ram jeo.
Within: attachment, falsehood, duality, trade, bal ram jeo.
Profiting in falsehood, duality; colossal sorrow experienced.
Without the Divine Teacher, Destination is unreachable.
Alienated from the Path, mystified fools experience continuous jostling.
The Divine One, in compassion, initiates the Divine Teacher to present the Divine Reality.
O Nanak: Lifetime of separations end. In intuitive reverence, the Meeting transpires. ||3||

The auspicious moment materializes.
The bride’s heart is imbued with a deep yearning, bal ram jeo.
Sages, and scholars emerge.
Blessings resound, bal ram jeo.
Hearing the blessings, the bride’s heart rejoices in anticipation of meeting her Divine-Husband.
Sages, and scholars, instantaneously resolve to perform the Wedding ceremony.
The unreachable, unattainable, eternally immaculate childhood mate, the Ultimate Reality, Divine-Husband realized within.
O Nanak: Grace arranges this Union. United forever, never to be estranged. ||4||

     Sabad Translation | Guru Ramdas Sahib in Rag Suhi | Guru Granth Sahib 773

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ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੪ ਛੰਤ ਘਰੁ ੧
ੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਮਿਲਾਇ ਅਵਗਣ ਵਿਕਣਾ ਗੁਣ ਰਵਾ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਧਿਆਇ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਨਿਤ ਨਿਤ ਚਵਾ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਸਦ ਮੀਠੀ ਲਾਗੀ ਪਾਪ ਵਿਕਾਰ ਗਵਾਇਆ ॥
ਹਉਮੈ ਰੋਗੁ ਗਇਆ ਭਉ ਭਾਗਾ ਸਹਜੇ ਸਹਜਿ ਮਿਲਾਇਆ ॥
ਕਾਇਆ ਸੇਜ ਗੁਰ ਸਬਦਿ ਸੁਖਾਲੀ ਗਿਆਨ ਤਤਿ ਕਰਿ ਭੋਗੋ ॥
ਅਨਦਿਨੁ ਸੁਖਿ ਮਾਣੇ ਨਿਤ ਰਲੀਆ ਨਾਨਕ ਧੁਰਿ ਸੰਜੋਗੋ ॥੧॥
ਸਤੁ ਸੰਤੋਖੁ ਕਰਿ ਭਾਉ ਕੁੜਮੁ ਕੁੜਮਾਈ ਆਇਆ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਸੰਤ ਜਨਾ ਕਰਿ ਮੇਲੁ ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਗਾਵਾਈਆ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਬਾਣੀ ਗੁਰ ਗਾਈ ਪਰਮ ਗਤਿ ਪਾਈ ਪੰਚ ਮਿਲੇ ਸੋਹਾਇਆ ॥
ਗਇਆ ਕਰੋਧੁ ਮਮਤਾ ਤਨਿ ਨਾਠੀ ਪਾਖੰਡੁ ਭਰਮੁ ਗਵਾਇਆ ॥
ਹਉਮੈ ਪੀਰ ਗਈ ਸੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਆਰੋਗਤ ਭਏ ਸਰੀਰਾ ॥
ਗੁਰ ਪਰਸਾਦੀ ਬ੍ਰਹਮੁ ਪਛਾਤਾ ਨਾਨਕ ਗੁਣੀ ਗਹੀਰਾ ॥੨॥
ਮਨਮੁਖਿ ਵਿਛੁੜੀ ਦੂਰਿ ਮਹਲੁ ਨ ਪਾਏ ਬਲਿ ਗਈ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਅੰਤਰਿ ਮਮਤਾ ਕੂਰਿ ਕੂੜੁ ਵਿਹਾਝੇ ਕੂੜਿ ਲਈ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਕੂੜੁ ਕਪਟੁ ਕਮਾਵੈ ਮਹਾ ਦੁਖੁ ਪਾਵੈ ਵਿਣੁ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਮਗੁ ਨ ਪਾਇਆ ॥
ਉਝੜ ਪੰਥਿ ਭ੍ਰਮੈ ਗਾਵਾਰੀ ਖਿਨੁ ਖਿਨੁ ਧਕੇ ਖਾਇਆ ॥
ਆਪੇ ਦਇਆ ਕਰੇ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਦਾਤਾ ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਮਿਲਾਏ ॥
ਜਨਮ ਜਨਮ ਕੇ ਵਿਛੁੜੇ ਜਨ ਮੇਲੇ ਨਾਨਕ ਸਹਜਿ ਸੁਭਾਏ ॥੩॥
ਆਇਆ ਲਗਨੁ ਗਣਾਇ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਧਨ ਓਮਾਹੀਆ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਪੰਡਿਤ ਪਾਧੇ ਆਣਿ ਪਤੀ ਬਹਿ ਵਾਚਾਈਆ ਬਲਿ ਰਾਮ ਜੀਉ ॥
ਪਤੀ ਵਾਚਾਈ ਮਨਿ ਵਜੀ ਵਧਾਈ ਜਬ ਸਾਜਨ ਸੁਣੇ ਘਰਿ ਆਏ ॥
ਗੁਣੀ ਗਿਆਨੀ ਬਹਿ ਮਤਾ ਪਕਾਇਆ ਫੇਰੇ ਤਤੁ ਦਿਵਾਏ ॥
ਵਰੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਅਗੰਮੁ ਅਗੋਚਰੁ ਸਦ ਨਵਤਨੁ ਬਾਲ ਸਖਾਈ ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਿ ਕੈ ਮੇਲੇ ਵਿਛੁੜਿ ਕਦੇ ਨ ਜਾਈ ॥੪॥੧॥

     Guru Ramdas Sahib in Rag Suhi  | Guru Granth Sahib 773

Reflection

Sung in Rag Suhi, the deep crimson of longing and love, today’s Hukam stirs my being. It does not simply speak—it pours into the heart like a warm light. I feel it settle into the quietest corners of my consciousness.

There is a sweetness in this Sabad—a deep, unwavering pull. I am reminded that our impurities and burdens are not held against us. The Divine Teacher lovingly removes them. Our virtues and merits remain—glistening like pearls uncovered from the depths of self-forgetting.

The invitation is clear: meditate incessantly on Nam. Let Sabad resound again and again. And when Sabad becomes sweet—not just heard, but absorbed—then ego dissolves. Fear fades—the inner experience dawns. The body feels cradled in Sabad, and the greatest treasure—Divine Wisdom—rises effortlessly.

Truth and contentment don’t just exist side by side; they create immaculate love. Together, they cultivate a state where Sabad permeates everything. The world feels lighter. Virtues expand: compassion, wisdom, patience. And the vices—anger, attachment, hypocrisy—simply exit. They cannot live in that light.

The self-centered remain distant, separated. Chasing falsehood, trading in duality, they cannot access the Eternal Home. Only when the Divine in compassion sends the Teacher does that Home become known.

And then, the metaphor changes. The moment becomes auspicious. The longing bride’s heart overflows. She prepares to meet the Divine-Husband—no longer a fantasy, no longer unreachable. The sages and scholars are not gatekeepers; they come to bless, not block. The Divine Union happens not elsewhere but within.

Today’s Hukam reminds me Grace arranges the union. I cannot force it. But I can cultivate readiness. I can be open. I can yearn. And I can sing bal ram jeo—a surrender soaked in adoration, in awe, in utter love.

Bal ram jeo – A complete, fervent, willing, loving surrender to the One Universal Life—the Ultimate Love. In my world, I translate it as: I adore You. Yet I also feel bal ram jeo is an invocation, a cry from the depths of love.

Nam – The primordial essence that binds the entire creation as one integral whole. It is used to express the essence of all existence. “The essence of Nam is in all.” – Sidh Gosht, Verse 50.

Sabad and Nam, at times, seem to mean the same thing. However, Sidh Goshti reveals that Sabad is the medium through which the ego is destroyed, allowing the Truth-Oriented individual (Gurmukh) to experience Nam. Nam is also the manifestation of Sabad.

Therefore, it is impossible to translate Nam in a single word—it contains multitudes.

Sabad – Often translated as the Sacred or Divine Word, but that is limiting.
“The Sabad is the Guru, and the awareness of its sound is the disciple.” – Sidh Goshti, Verse 44.
“Sabad is the medium through which Truth-Oriented individuals come to an understanding of the Ultimate Reality – IkOankar.” – Sidh Goshti, Verse 58.

Sabad is the Guru—the Eternal Guru—the Ultimate Reality. Meditating, understanding, and living Sabad increases awareness, dissolves ego, and leads to direct experience of IkOankar.

Other dimensions of Sabad:

• It softens the heart and makes it a place where evolving spiritual knowledge finds a receptive home
• A necessary aid for the attainment of Wisdom
• A revelation, which is experienced in the heart
• A means to realizing the “divine inner reality”
• The Ultimate Reality itself

Sabad is both the journey and the destination.

Today, I feel cradled in Sabad.
And in that cradle, serenity dawns.
Union becomes possible.

May we all feel that Presence.May the auspicious moment materialize within us.

About the Series

Sabad is Infinite; we are very finite. This is our understanding at the moment, which was different yesterday and may evolve tomorrow, as we deepen our relationship with the Sabad. In this trans-creation, we have chosen to keep the repeating words in the Sabad same. We aspire to learn and retain the Divine attribute as used in the original Sabad and avoid terms like God or Lord.