ਮਨ ਰਾਮ ਨਾਮ ਕਰਿ ਆਸਾ ॥
man raam naam kar aasaa.
O mortal, place your hopes in the Name of the Lord,
ਭਾਉ ਦੂਜਾ ਬਿਨਸਿ ਬਿਨਾਸਾ ॥
bhaa-o doojaa binas binaasaa.
and your love of duality shall simply vanish.
ਵਿਚਿ ਆਸਾ ਹੋਇ ਨਿਰਾਸੀ ॥
vich aasaa ho-ay niraasee.
One who, in hope, remains unattached to hope,
ਸੋ ਜਨੁ ਮਿਲਿਆ ਹਰਿ ਪਾਸੀ ॥
so jan mili-aa har paasee.
such a humble being meets with his Lord.
ਕੋਈ ਰਾਮ ਨਾਮ ਗੁਨ ਗਾਵਨੋ ॥
ko-ee raam naam gun gaavno.
And one who sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord's Name
ਜਨੁ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਤਿਸੁ ਪਗਿ ਲਾਵਨੋ ॥੨॥੧॥੭॥੪॥੬॥੭॥੧੭॥
jan naanak tis pag laavno. ||2||1||7||4||6||7||17||
- servant Nanak falls at his feet. ||2||1||7||4||6||7||17||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Place your hopes in the Name of the One, and the pull toward a second thing — the sense that you and everything else are split apart — simply melts away.
The one who lives inside hope yet is free of grasping at it meets the One up close. Nanak says: whoever sings the praises of the One's Naam, I gladly bow at their feet.
Hope that rests in the Name instead of grasping is where the sense of separation dissolves.
Vich aasaa ho-ay niraasee — within hope, free of hope — is the shabad's paradox: hope that rests instead of grasps. Bhaa-o doojaa (the love of a second thing) is dubiDhaa again, the split that melts when hope settles into the Name.
A Question to Sit With
What is something you can look forward to calmly, without anxiously grabbing at it?
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