You gave me everything I have — so when I sing Your Name, I rise up light and glad.
The Arc
A shabad of gratitude and open hands. You gave soul, breath, and body, and tucked Your light inside; we all come as beggars, and singing the Name lifts us. The Name is named again and again as what carries, calms, honors, and clears the road. This rare life was given so we could speak the Name, and in the end there is no one and nothing outside the One — it is all one great play that folds back into the One.
Key Vocabulary
jaachik — beggars with open, empty hands before the generous One.
naam japatt — the fourfold refrain: chanting the Name saves, calms, honors, clears the way.
dulabh dayh — this rare, hard-to-get human body, given for the Name.
sabh tayro khayl — it is all Your play, folding back into You.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Everything-is-the-One's-play, the Oneness that dissolves the sense of a separate doer.
For Raag Basant
Spring as rising light: the graced self lifted glad and green by the Name.
Translation Notes
jaachik (beggar) and mugadh (fool) rendered as open-handedness and humble smallness, not self-contempt. The naam-japatt refrain is kept wholly positive, never as anxious repetition.
You gave me everything I have — so when I sing Your Name, I rise up light and glad.
The Arc
A shabad of gratitude and open hands. You gave soul, breath, and body, and tucked Your light inside; we all come as beggars, and singing the Name lifts us. The Name is named again and again as what carries, calms, honors, and clears the road. This rare life was given so we could speak the Name, and in the end there is no one and nothing outside the One — it is all one great play that folds back into the One.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Everything-is-the-One's-play, the Oneness that dissolves the sense of a separate doer.
For Raag Basant
Spring as rising light: the graced self lifted glad and green by the Name.
Translation Notes
jaachik (beggar) and mugadh (fool) rendered as open-handedness and humble smallness, not self-contempt. The naam-japatt refrain is kept wholly positive, never as anxious repetition.