Raag Bilaaval
Commentary

Raag Bilaaval, Dupda, Mehl 5 (Guru Arjan)

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

  • 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.

Last updated: 2026-07-08

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