Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In that good place there's always joy, and a quiet music plays that no one has to strum.
Loving people gather and sing together, celebrating what's good.
Their singing is beautiful to the One, and they're full of sweet affection.
They let go of the me-first feeling and meet what they'd long been missing.
The One takes them by the arm and makes them family — kind beyond reach.
Forever clean and clear are the hearts that sing the true Word.
The verse describes the sat sangat — the gathering of the good — as a place of constant anand (bliss) where the anhad (unstruck melody) resounds. The image of singing together is central: joy in Sikhism is communal, sung in company. The reunion note sounds again — "they meet Him from whom they were separated so long" (the viraha resolved) — and again it's the One who acts: baanhi pakri ("taking them by the arm"). Self-conceit (haumai) is what's set down, and the reward is being made His own — belonging. For a child: singing and celebrating good things together with others is itself a kind of coming-home.
When have you felt happiest singing or celebrating together with other people?
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