Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the Name lives in your heart, the whole path is complete. You do not need a special place to feel clean and whole -- everything is already perfect, because the deepest thing is already in place.
The keynote word is pooraa -- perfect, whole, complete, repeated all through the shabad. Pooraa maarag, pooraa isnaan -- perfect is the path, perfect the cleansing bath. Guru Arjan's radical claim is that the Name makes path and cleansing complete; commentators read that as fulfilling the external rituals of purity from within. We present this as inclusion, not attack -- the inner completeness is what makes everything whole.
What makes you feel truly clean and whole inside -- more than washing your hands ever could?
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