Come, friends, and feast together on the Name; stay wakeful and the thieves are destroyed; stock wisdom and humility and deal only in the Name — for some are drunk on a poisoned mind, but the devotees are intoxicated with Truth.
The Arc
Pauri 0: come, friends, feast on the flavors of the Name together. The Pause (Pauri 1): reflect on reality, stay wakeful, and the thieves are destroyed. Pauri 2: take wisdom and humility as supplies; deal only in the Name. Pauri 3: only those who dedicate all are accepted, and they celebrate. Pauri 4: fools are drunk on a poisoned mind; the devotees are intoxicated with Truth.
Key Vocabulary
the feast of the Name: devotion as a shared banquet of flavors (Har Ras, Sat Sangat)
the wakeful Gurmukh: a wakeful soul not robbed by the thieves (cf. Shabad 130)
the shop of the Name: dealing in the one good that never loses value (cf. Shabad 97)
two intoxications: the wine of a poisoned mind vs the Truth (cf. Shabad 62)
Themes and Cross-Connections
The feast and shop images render devotion as shared banquet and good trade (Har Ras, the merchant of the Name, Shabad 97, Shabad 206). The wakeful Gurmukh whose thieves are destroyed recurs from Shabad 130 and Shabad 205. The closing two intoxications mirrors Shabad 62 — the world's wine vs the Nectar of Truth.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is convivial and clear: feast on the Name together, stay awake, trade only in what lasts, and be drunk on Truth rather than poison. The mood is warm and bracing.
Come, friends, and feast together on the Name; stay wakeful and the thieves are destroyed; stock wisdom and humility and deal only in the Name — for some are drunk on a poisoned mind, but the devotees are intoxicated with Truth.
The Arc
Pauri 0: come, friends, feast on the flavors of the Name together. The Pause (Pauri 1): reflect on reality, stay wakeful, and the thieves are destroyed. Pauri 2: take wisdom and humility as supplies; deal only in the Name. Pauri 3: only those who dedicate all are accepted, and they celebrate. Pauri 4: fools are drunk on a poisoned mind; the devotees are intoxicated with Truth.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The feast and shop images render devotion as shared banquet and good trade (Har Ras, the merchant of the Name, Shabad 97, Shabad 206). The wakeful Gurmukh whose thieves are destroyed recurs from Shabad 130 and Shabad 205. The closing two intoxications mirrors Shabad 62 — the world's wine vs the Nectar of Truth.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is convivial and clear: feast on the Name together, stay awake, trade only in what lasts, and be drunk on Truth rather than poison. The mood is warm and bracing.