Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the One who melts away every fear lives in your mind, fear itself has no place to stay. Without that presence, worry can stretch on and on — so let the fearless One make a home in you.
This is the center of the shabad: let the One who melts fear live in your mind.
This line is the Rahao, the "pause" line, the center of the shabad. The name in focus is bhai bhanjan, "the breaker of fear."
The verse warns what happens without the One in mind. A person spends janam bahut, many lifetimes, in darpat darpat, fear upon fear. Yet the line's heart is an invitation: let the fear-melting One live in you. The cure matters more than the threat.
Think of a night-light in a child's room. Once it is on, the shadows lose their scariness. Fear has nowhere left to stay.
What thought or presence, when you call it to mind, makes a fear shrink right down?
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