Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Speak the beautiful Name, and watch how the endless wanting inside you begins to quiet down.
When kindness touches a heart, the Name settles in and makes a home there.
Meeting real wisdom, you find a treasure richer than anything you could buy.
By good fortune you get to sit with loving people — so sing about what is good.
A short, practical pauri. The opening imperative — ras-naa jap — "O tongue, chant the Name" — is followed by a promise a child can test: doing so, "your desires shall be extinguished" (trisnaa jaae bujhaae — the fire of craving put out). This is Sikhism's answer to endless wanting: not getting everything you crave, but the quieting of the craving itself through remembrance. The "treasure of the Lord's wealth" (har dhan) obtained through the Guru is again the inward treasure — worth more than anything purchasable. And the verse ends where the shabad keeps ending: vadbhaagee good fortune to join the Company of the Holy and "sing the Glorious Praises." Practice, and the company that supports it, are the whole prescription.
When you really want something, what helps the wanting settle down?
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