Fly free, soul-bird, on the wings of remembrance: the teaching gently frees you from confusion, craving, and clinging — so offer your whole self and ask the One to take your hand.
The Arc
Pauri 0 (Rahao) is the invitation to flight: come out, soul-bird, let remembrance be your wings; take shelter with a good soul and keep the jewel of the One against your heart. Pauri 1 names the three traps — confusion (a well), endless craving (sticky mud), clinging attachment (a tight cord) — and the world-teacher who cuts them all, so the heart can come to rest. Pauri 2 closes the shabad and the whole batch on trusting surrender: kind Beloved, shelter of the low, hear my prayer, take my hand — my body and life are already Yours.
Key Vocabulary
nikas ray pankhee: come out, soul-bird — the invitation to fly free
simar har paankh: let remembrance be your wings — the practice that lifts
bharam / trisnaa / moh: confusion, craving, clinging — the three traps, as well, mud, cord
jagat gur gobid: the world-teacher — the one who cuts every trap
kar geh layho: take my hand — the batch's recurring reach, here at the close
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soul-bird taking wing on remembrance is a luminous Gurbani image (compare the hans/soul-swan flying home in the Wadahans Alaahnian); here the wings are simran itself. The three traps — bharam, trisnaa, moh — are the classic knots the teaching loosens, and philosophy.md's Haumai underlies them all. The closing jee-o pind sabh tumree raas (life and body already Yours) is the perfect final note for this batch, whose spine has been refuge and being safely held.
Translation Notes
Sant Singh Khalsa renders moh kee faas literally as a "noose... around your neck." Per wellbeing rules we soften to "tightly bound by clinging," keeping the sense of constriction without the distressing image, while retaining the vivid well and mud for the other two traps.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree's reflective steadiness lifts, in this closing shabad, into the image of flight — remembrance as wings — before settling into the trusting surrender that has been the batch's home key.
Fly free, soul-bird, on the wings of remembrance: the teaching gently frees you from confusion, craving, and clinging — so offer your whole self and ask the One to take your hand.
The Arc
Pauri 0 (Rahao) is the invitation to flight: come out, soul-bird, let remembrance be your wings; take shelter with a good soul and keep the jewel of the One against your heart. Pauri 1 names the three traps — confusion (a well), endless craving (sticky mud), clinging attachment (a tight cord) — and the world-teacher who cuts them all, so the heart can come to rest. Pauri 2 closes the shabad and the whole batch on trusting surrender: kind Beloved, shelter of the low, hear my prayer, take my hand — my body and life are already Yours.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The soul-bird taking wing on remembrance is a luminous Gurbani image (compare the hans/soul-swan flying home in the Wadahans Alaahnian); here the wings are simran itself. The three traps — bharam, trisnaa, moh — are the classic knots the teaching loosens, and philosophy.md's Haumai underlies them all. The closing jee-o pind sabh tumree raas (life and body already Yours) is the perfect final note for this batch, whose spine has been refuge and being safely held.
Translation Notes
Sant Singh Khalsa renders moh kee faas literally as a "noose... around your neck." Per wellbeing rules we soften to "tightly bound by clinging," keeping the sense of constriction without the distressing image, while retaining the vivid well and mud for the other two traps.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree's reflective steadiness lifts, in this closing shabad, into the image of flight — remembrance as wings — before settling into the trusting surrender that has been the batch's home key.
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