The whole fruit of sacred baths, great charity, austerities, and deep scripture is already gathered — simply — in a heart that holds the Name.
The Arc
A shabad of respectful comparison. Pauri 0: the good of millions of ceremonial baths and staggering charity is already held by the one whose heart is home to the Name. Pauri 1 (Rahao + ||2||): singing praise makes one pure, faults wash away in holy company, and all the fruit of intense practice and fulfilled desire comes through cherishing the Name with the tongue. Pauri 2: the fruit of the great scriptures, yoga, and spiritual mastery arrives when the mind aligns with the One. Pauri 3 closes on the paradox — the One's wisdom is fathomless and unreachable, yet met through the simple practice of the Name, and found already gracious.
Key Vocabulary
kot majan / daan: millions of ceremonial baths / charity — named respectfully, not mocked
saadhoo saran: shelter of the holy — where faults wash away
The shabad sets the fruits of named practices — baths, charity, austerity, scripture — beside the fruit it attributes to the Name. Per the interfaith rule the project reads that comparison as fulfillment rather than dismissal, an application we bring to the verse rather than a claim it makes about those practices' aim: the Vedas, Shastras, Simritis, and yogic attainment are named without scorn, and we take the reading to be inclusive (the Name gathers every good) rather than sectarian. The close ties to Naam: the fathomless One (agam apaaray) that thought cannot grasp is held as a living presence through remembrance.
Translation Notes
Sant Singh Khalsa lists the ritual and scriptural acts straightforwardly; the Gurmukhi frames them as comparisons whose fruit the Name equals or exceeds, not as targets of scorn. Our rendering keeps them respectful per the interfaith rule; reading the shabad as inclusive fulfillment rather than as a critique of Hindu practice is the project's application, not something the verse itself states.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree's contemplative mood suits the steady, accumulating comparison — each verse laying another great practice beside the quiet sufficiency of the Name.
The whole fruit of sacred baths, great charity, austerities, and deep scripture is already gathered — simply — in a heart that holds the Name.
The Arc
A shabad of respectful comparison. Pauri 0: the good of millions of ceremonial baths and staggering charity is already held by the one whose heart is home to the Name. Pauri 1 (Rahao + ||2||): singing praise makes one pure, faults wash away in holy company, and all the fruit of intense practice and fulfilled desire comes through cherishing the Name with the tongue. Pauri 2: the fruit of the great scriptures, yoga, and spiritual mastery arrives when the mind aligns with the One. Pauri 3 closes on the paradox — the One's wisdom is fathomless and unreachable, yet met through the simple practice of the Name, and found already gracious.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad sets the fruits of named practices — baths, charity, austerity, scripture — beside the fruit it attributes to the Name. Per the interfaith rule the project reads that comparison as fulfillment rather than dismissal, an application we bring to the verse rather than a claim it makes about those practices' aim: the Vedas, Shastras, Simritis, and yogic attainment are named without scorn, and we take the reading to be inclusive (the Name gathers every good) rather than sectarian. The close ties to Naam: the fathomless One (agam apaaray) that thought cannot grasp is held as a living presence through remembrance.
Translation Notes
Sant Singh Khalsa lists the ritual and scriptural acts straightforwardly; the Gurmukhi frames them as comparisons whose fruit the Name equals or exceeds, not as targets of scorn. Our rendering keeps them respectful per the interfaith rule; reading the shabad as inclusive fulfillment rather than as a critique of Hindu practice is the project's application, not something the verse itself states.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree's contemplative mood suits the steady, accumulating comparison — each verse laying another great practice beside the quiet sufficiency of the Name.