Vahiguru ji ka Khalsa, Vahiguru ji ki Fatih!

There comes a moment—unexpected, unplanned—when something within us stirs. A quiet ache. A longing that no success, no possession, no title can seem to quiet. We climb one peak only to glimpse another in the distance. The hunger persists. The cycle continues.

Will it ever end?

In the fourth stanza of Anand Sahib, Guru Amardas Sahib offers a way forward. The Guru says: The true Nam has become my support, which has removed all the hungers.

Nam—the eternal Identification with IkOankar, the One—became the foundation of the Guru’s being. It silenced the cravings, dissolved the restlessness, and filled the heart and mind with an unshakable serenity. The vastness of this realization was overwhelming, all-encompassing. And from this place of profound stillness, the Guru turns to us: Listen, O saintly beings! Place love in the Sabad—Infinite Wisdom.

We pause.
We listen.
But do we truly hear?

We are being called saintly beings. Not because we have attained perfection but because within each of us lies the potential to experience this eternal bond.

To place love in the Sabad is not an intellectual exercise. It is not a task to complete or a lesson to master. It is to engage with it not as a mere concept but as a living experience. To cherish Sabad. To surrender to Sabad. To allow Sabad to transform us.

Love is not passive. It calls for devotion, attentiveness, and presence. The Sabad becomes the channel through which we receive Nam, the sustenance that grants us true bliss.

We live in a world of wanting. A better home. A bigger name. A greater validation. Even when we hold what we once longed for, the emptiness lingers. The next desire surfaces. Serenity remains out of reach.

The Guru does not command. The Guru invites.

The Guru seems to say: Come closer. Come stand where I stand. Look through my eyes. Feel through my heart. Let Nam become your foundation, and watch as the longing fades into tranquility.

What would it be like to rest in that kind of stillness? To know, without question, that we are held, nourished, complete?

Yet, we hesitate. Because love is not safe. Love asks for all of us. It asks for trust. For devotion. For presence. It asks us to open ourselves to something beyond comprehension, something that cannot be controlled.

Are we willing?

Or will we keep the Sabad at a distance—admiring its beauty but never allowing it to become our breath, our heartbeat?

The Guru waits.
Not with judgment but with love.
The choice is before us.

May we choose wisely.
May the Wisdom-Guru be with us!