The Rahau: repeating the Name, we grow attuned to it, and since meeting the kind ones the tangled thinking has drifted off. The verse fills with the cool, calm, kind pervasion of the One, near which the fevers clear; the close lists the gifts handed down by the holy — truth, contentment, kindness, right living, a clear heart — and the wide understanding that comes to whoever recognizes this within.
Key Vocabulary
gobind... ma-ee: becoming attuned by remembrance
durmat door: the tangled thinking gone
seetal saant da-i-aal: cool, calm, kind
sat santokh da-i-aa Dharam such: the five virtues
manhu pachhaani-aa: recognized within
Themes and Cross-Connections
Becoming what you dwell on, virtue as a passed-on gift, and inner recognition.
For Raag Bilaaval
A calm, kind shabad matching the raag.
Translation Notes
SSK's evil-mindedness is rendered gently as tangled, unkind thinking that drifts away — ego as something to heal, not condemn.
We slowly become what we keep in mind.
The Arc
The Rahau: repeating the Name, we grow attuned to it, and since meeting the kind ones the tangled thinking has drifted off. The verse fills with the cool, calm, kind pervasion of the One, near which the fevers clear; the close lists the gifts handed down by the holy — truth, contentment, kindness, right living, a clear heart — and the wide understanding that comes to whoever recognizes this within.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Becoming what you dwell on, virtue as a passed-on gift, and inner recognition.
For Raag Bilaaval
A calm, kind shabad matching the raag.
Translation Notes
SSK's evil-mindedness is rendered gently as tangled, unkind thinking that drifts away — ego as something to heal, not condemn.
Last updated: 2026-07-08