Come with empty hands into the treasure of peace; let the One live in your mind, and bliss fills the home of the heart.
The Arc
A prayer of refuge that resolves into settled joy. It opens by naming the One as the treasure of peace and coming in with empty hands. The Rahau — merged here with the second verse — asks the One to move into the mind, and answers its own worry: with the One in your thoughts, no trouble knocks you flat. The Name is then named as the frame that holds mind and body up; and the shabad closes with love moving in, unkind habits falling away on their own, and lasting bliss filling the home of the heart.
Key Vocabulary
sukh nidhaan: the treasure-store of peace
anaath: one with no other protector — carried as honest empty-handedness
larh / anchal laa-ay: to hold the hem of the robe — staying close
aadhaar: support, the frame that holds one up
durmat reet: unkind habits of mind — which fall away as love moves in
bhagtan kai ghar: the home of the devotees — the settled heart
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Empty hands welcomed into shelter" is the grace teaching in miniature: you are received as you are, not after you become impressive. The pauri where love moves in and bad habits leave on their own echoes the wider Gurbani insight that haumai dissolves through understanding, not through force. And "the Name is the frame" restates Naam as the living support the whole self leans on.
For Raag Bilaaval
Bilaaval's brightness here is the calm of being held — the treasure of peace, the home filled with bliss. The raag's daylight is the security of someone who has stepped inside shelter and set their burden down.
Translation Notes
Two child-safety choices: (1) verse two's reference to the jam (Messenger of Death) troubling the servant is reframed away from death-terror to "not shaken even by fear," keeping the reassurance while dropping the frightening figure. (2) "The body is reduced to ashes" (tan chhaar) when the Name is forgotten is carried as dryness and hollowness rather than the literal funeral image. Structurally, Pauri1 merges the Rahau with verse two, so its For-Your-Children carries both the plea and the reassurance.
Come with empty hands into the treasure of peace; let the One live in your mind, and bliss fills the home of the heart.
The Arc
A prayer of refuge that resolves into settled joy. It opens by naming the One as the treasure of peace and coming in with empty hands. The Rahau — merged here with the second verse — asks the One to move into the mind, and answers its own worry: with the One in your thoughts, no trouble knocks you flat. The Name is then named as the frame that holds mind and body up; and the shabad closes with love moving in, unkind habits falling away on their own, and lasting bliss filling the home of the heart.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Empty hands welcomed into shelter" is the grace teaching in miniature: you are received as you are, not after you become impressive. The pauri where love moves in and bad habits leave on their own echoes the wider Gurbani insight that haumai dissolves through understanding, not through force. And "the Name is the frame" restates Naam as the living support the whole self leans on.
For Raag Bilaaval
Bilaaval's brightness here is the calm of being held — the treasure of peace, the home filled with bliss. The raag's daylight is the security of someone who has stepped inside shelter and set their burden down.
Translation Notes
Two child-safety choices: (1) verse two's reference to the jam (Messenger of Death) troubling the servant is reframed away from death-terror to "not shaken even by fear," keeping the reassurance while dropping the frightening figure. (2) "The body is reduced to ashes" (tan chhaar) when the Name is forgotten is carried as dryness and hollowness rather than the literal funeral image. Structurally, Pauri1 merges the Rahau with verse two, so its For-Your-Children carries both the plea and the reassurance.
Last updated: 2026-07-08