The Lord God is my praanaa, my breath of life; He is the Giver of peace.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The worst wrongs and countless pains and sicknesses fall away under your kind glance.
Sleeping and waking, Nanak sings the Name and falls at the teacher's feet.
The healing comes through nadar — the "gracious glance". And the closing image is total saturation: "sleeping and waking" Nanak sings the Name. Remembrance is not a scheduled activity squeezed into a busy day; it has become the background hum of the whole life, continuing even into sleep. This is the goal the raag keeps pointing at — not devotion as one task among many, but devotion soaked into every hour, waking and sleeping, until it is simply the texture of being alive.
What's the difference between doing something as a task and having it become just part of who you are?
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