Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
As You keep me, so I live — the Name is my one support.
In the end it is the only companion; through it Your servants find the gate of liberation.
The surrender-verse, in the raag's now-familiar grammar: as You keep me, I live — the creature's arithmetic, stated as rest rather than resignation. And then the sober accounting of the end: ant sakhaa-ee — the companion at the last. Everything else in the caravan is contracted only to the border: wealth, titles, even the beloved bodies beside us walk only so far. One companion crosses. To befriend the Name now is simply to make the acquaintance, in easy times, of the only friend whose company survives the crossing — and whose door, it turns out, is the gate of liberation itself.
Who or what will be with you at the very end — and are you tending that friendship now?
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