Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you embroider your gown with the Naam and wear it, then you are known as the Beloved's bride.
Keep the home of your own heart safe, taste nothing bad, and you will be dear to your Beloved.
Stitch the Naam carefully through your life and keep your heart's home clean, and you are dear to the Beloved.
The verse turns to a craft image every child can picture: embroidery. To kadh kaseedaa — to embroider your 'gown' with the Name — is to work devotion carefully into the whole fabric of a life, thread by thread. And to ghar raakhahi (keep your heart's home) and buraa na chaakhahi (taste no harm) is to become kant piaaree, the Beloved's dearest. Belonging is shown as loving, patient craft, not a single grand act.
What is something good that gets built slowly, a little bit at a time?
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