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Verse 65 of 72

Let Any Day Be the Day You Begin

ਆਦਿਤ ਕਰੈ ਭਗਤਿ ਆਰੰਭ ॥
aadit karai bhagat aarambh.
On Sunday, begin the devotional worship of the Lord,
ਕਾਇਆ ਮੰਦਰ ਮਨਸਾ ਥੰਭ ॥
kaa-i-aa mandar mansaa thambh.
and restrain the desires within the temple of the body.
ਅਹਿਨਿਸਿ ਅਖੰਡ ਸੁਰਹੀ ਜਾਇ ॥
ahinis akhand surhee jaa-ay.
When your attention is focused day and night upon that imperishable place,
ਤਉ ਅਨਹਦ ਬੇਣੁ ਸਹਜ ਮਹਿ ਬਾਇ ॥੧॥
ta-o anhad bayn sahj meh baa-ay. ||1||
then the celestial flutes play the unstruck melody in tranquil peace and poise. ||1||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Sunday: let this be the day you begin turning your heart toward the One — make the start.

Steady the wants inside the temple of your body, the way you'd calm a room before something important.

When your attention rests, day and night, on that quiet, unbreakable place inside you, a music begins — the unstruck melody — playing gently in a deep, easy peace.

Let any day be the day you begin — steady the wants inside you, rest your attention on the quiet place within, and an easy inner music begins.
The deeper layer

aadit (Sunday, the sun’s day): karai bhagat aarambh — begin (aarambh) the loving devotion. kaa-i-aa mandar mansaa thambh — in the kaa-i-aa mandar (temple of the body) steady the mansaa (surging wants) like a thambh (pillar/support). ahinis akhand surhee jaa-ay — when attention rests day and night (ahinis) on the akhand (unbroken) place. ta-o anhad bayn sahj meh baa-ay — then the anhad bayn (unstruck flute) plays in sahj — natural, effortless peace. Sunday = the day of beginning — a gentle memory-hook, not a holy-day claim.

A Question to Sit With

What's something good you've been meaning to begin — and what would help you start today?

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