Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Even the heaviest ache can ease in a single moment when the Name rises to your lips.
Step into that shelter, and something cool and calm settles over you. It is a soothing peace, like cool water poured on a burning heat until the burning quiets and stops.
In the One's shelter, even a burning pain can cool down.
Mahaa kasat kaatai khin bheetar — the worst distress is cut away in an instant, when the tongue remembers the Name. Then come words you can almost feel: seetal, cool; calm; and sookh, ease. That is what the One's shelter is like.
The verse says the "burning fire," jaltee agan, is put out. Today we can also read it as a mind on fire with wanting or worry. It is like running a burned finger under cool water. The sting fades.
This is Raag Gauree at its most healing. It does not promise that pain never comes. It says there is a shelter where the burning quiets down.
When you feel hot with worry or upset, what cools you down?
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