Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hey there, soul: your real shelter is the Name — that is the roof that actually holds. All the other things you scheme and arrange to keep yourself safe still leave a little worry underneath, a nagging sense that endings are coming. But the Name is a shelter no ending can reach.
Jee-aray olHaa naam kaa — olHaa means a shelter or covering, the thing you hide under from the rain. The Pause contrasts the one true shelter with avar je karan karaavano — "whatever else you do or arrange." The old line names bha-o hai jaam kaa, the fear of death, hanging over every worldly scheme. Following the project's care, this stays as a gentle honesty — worldly safety-nets never quite settle the deeper unease — rather than a threat, and the Name is offered as the covering that does settle it.
What things do you arrange to feel safe — and do they reach all the way down?
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