Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Make the One your one and only support.
Then a strength moves through your life that never gets beaten. It cannot lose.
When the One is our support, a strength arrives that never loses.
This is the Rahao, the "pause" line at the center of the shabad. Jay ko-oo apunee ot samaarai — when someone makes the One their support. Ot means support, something to lean on. Apunaa bal nahee haarai — then the One's own power, bal, helps them, and that power never loses.
This is not praise of your own strength. It is the strength that arrives once you stop trying to carry everything alone. Think of carrying heavy grocery bags by yourself. Then someone takes one handle, and suddenly the load is light.
Is there something you are trying to carry entirely by yourself? What would it feel like to set part of it down?
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