Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Keep the One in your thoughts, and it is like cool, clean water for a thirsty mind and a sweet scent that follows you all day.
Joining the Sangat, I reached the highest place. I was a plain little tree with no scent of my own, and growing beside the fragrant one made me sweet too.
The Naam is cool water and sandalwood scent at once: refreshment and fragrance together. A plain, scentless tree is made fragrant only by growing near the sandalwood.
seetal jal (cool water) and chandan vaas (sandalwood scent) open the hymn. hirad palaas are the scentless castor-oil plant and flame-of-the-forest, made sweet by nearness to the sandalwood of the satsangat -- the Sangat -- people gathered together to remember the One. Grace here is received in the Sangat, not achieved alone.
Whose company brings out the best in you?
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