Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Let's stay close to the One together, dear friends.
My heart is full of love, and I keep asking to remember and serve.
That closeness comes through remembering — so let's go and be near loving people.
Let go of pride and clinging, and give your heart and hands to what's good.
The One is great and complete, and meeting the One, the wall of doubt comes tumbling down.
Listen, friends: keep the beautiful Name close, again and again.
A communal verse, plural throughout — "O my friends, let us remain attached." Guru Arjan keeps turning the private longing outward into a shared journey. The recurring image bharam kapaat — "the wall of doubt is torn down" when we meet the One — appears again (as in Shabad 8): doubt is the barrier, and meeting dissolves it. The practical counsel is concrete: renounce ahang (pride) and moh (clinging attachment), and "dedicate this body, wealth and mind" — give yourself to what's good. And the closing instruction is simply to keep the Name close muhi muhi — "over and over." Repetition here is not empty; it's how anything precious becomes part of you. For a child: good things grow by being returned to again and again, and they're best done alongside friends.
What good habit gets stronger for you the more often you come back to it?
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