Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
With every single breath I remember my One; I live always in the company of the good.
The Name is my only support and wealth; from it, Nanak, I find joy.
"With each and every breath" — the remembrance is measured in breaths, the most continuous unit of a life. This is simran woven into respiration itself: not a practice you do and stop, but one that rides on the breath, ceaseless as breathing. And the declaration of what he owns: "the Name is my only support and wealth." Everything else — possessions, status, security — is set aside as secondary; the one real holding is the Name. From this single wealth comes anand, the deep joy that does not depend on circumstances. Own nothing but the Name, and you own the one thing that pays in unshakeable joy.
What's a kind of happiness that doesn't disappear when things go wrong? Where might it come from?
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