Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In that home the songs of joy never stop, and happiness overflows.
Heart and body are filled right up with the One who is pure delight.
The Beloved is endless and kind — a rescuer even of those who feel they've failed.
The One melts away pride and carries us gently over the roughest, most poisonous waters.
Whoever comes for shelter is wrapped in a loving embrace — that's simply the way of the One.
"I found my Beloved, who plays with me always."
The shabad closes in overflowing joy — anand (bliss), "songs of bliss resound," "millions of pleasures." But the tenderest notes are the rescue-lines: the One is paapee udhaaran — the "Saving Grace of sinners" — and garab prahaaran, the gentle destroyer of pride. And the universal promise: jo saran aavai... laae layho — "whoever comes to the Sanctuary, the Lord lovingly embraces" — this is the very nature of the One. No one who turns toward shelter is turned away; that's not a special favor but the One's essential way. The closing image is playful and intimate: the Beloved "plays with me forever" (sang khelai) — the relationship is not stern duty but delight, like a child playing with someone who loves them. The colophon (||4||1||4||) marks the close of a set within the Second House. For a child: whoever comes looking for shelter is always, always welcomed — that's just how love works.
How does it feel to know you'll be welcomed, no matter what, when you come home?
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