Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let go of your grasping and your doubts, brother,
and let the True Name live in your heart and your body.
This one names the cure for grasping.
This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line. It is the center of the shabad, the hymn. It pairs moh, clinging, with bharam, doubt. Both are ways of not resting. Both try to hold on to control.
In their place: saach naam riday ravai sareer — let the True Name live in your heart and body. The cure for grasping is not a tighter grip on something better. It is letting something true move in and stay. Think of a hand full of pebbles. It can't catch a gift until it opens. Open the hand, and there is room.
What might fill the space inside you if you loosened your grip on worry?
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