Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who hold You in their hearts live in peace, right here in this world.
They become free — completely free — and even the fear of death loses its grip on them. When you remember the One who has no fear, your own fears begin to fall away.
Those who give themselves to serving the One melt back into the One, the way a drop slips back into the ocean. Blessed, blessed are they — I would give myself away to them.
This one says fearlessness is something you catch, not something you force.
Jin nirbha-o jinH har nirbha-o dhi-aa-i-aa jee-o tin kaa bha-o sabh gavaasee — those who remember the Fearless One let go of all their fears. Nirbhau means "the Fearless." It is one of the names of the One in the Mool Mantar, the opening lines of the Guru Granth Sahib.
Think of a small child in a thunderstorm who climbs into a calm parent's lap. The child does not fight the fear. The child sits close to someone calm, and the calm spreads. You do not beat fear by fighting it. You remember the Fearless One until your fear has nothing to stand on.
"The noose of death is cut away" points to jeevat marnaa, which means "dying while alive." It is the proud "me, me, me" that fades, while the body goes on living. When that has already happened, death has lost its sting.
To "melt into the One" is the picture found all through Gurbani, the Guru's words: a drop slipping back into the ocean.
What fear in you might loosen if you remembered you belong to something that cannot be harmed?
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