ਜਾਗਹੁ ਜਾਗਹੁ ਸੂਤਿਹੋ ਚਲਿਆ ਵਣਜਾਰਾ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
jaagahu jaagahu sootiho chali-aa vanjaaraa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Wake up! Wake up! O sleepers, see that the travelling merchant is leaving. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Wake up! Wake up, you sleepers!
Look — the traveling merchant is packing to leave.
The caravan is leaving and does not post its departure time — wake up.
The Pause is a shout — two words hammered twice: jaag lehu, jaag lehu. The traveling merchant is the soul itself, and the caravan does not post its departure time. Aasaa returns often to sleep as the image of a life on autopilot — the world asleep in Maya while the rare ones wake — but nowhere is the alarm rung this urgently. Notice that it is a merciful shout: you only wake sleepers who still have time to catch the caravan.
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