ਰਾਖਨਹਾਰੁ ਅਪਾਰੁ ਰਾਖੈ ਅਗਨਿ ਮਾਹਿ ॥
raakhanhaar apaar raakhai agan maahi.
The Savior Lord is infinite; He saves us from the fire of the womb.
ਸੀਤਲੁ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਿਮਰਤ ਤਪਤਿ ਜਾਇ ॥੩॥
seetal har har naam simrat tapat jaa-ay. ||3||
The Name of the Lord, Har, Har, is soothing and cool; remembering it in meditation, the inner fire is quenched. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Savior is infinite; He saves us even from the fire of the womb.
The Name of the One is soothing and cool; remembering it, the inner fire is quenched.
The Name is cool water on a burning mind — it quenches the inner fire.
The Name is "soothing and cool" — water on a burning mind. It "quenches the inner fire" of desire and restlessness (the fever of Shabad 122, Shabad 169). And the Savior reaches even "the fire of the womb" — protecting the soul from its earliest, most helpless state (cf. Shabad 128). The cool Name puts out every fire.
A Question to Sit With
What cools you down when something inside you is burning?
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