Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O camel-mind, my good friend, gather up the Name as the supplies for your journey, and you'll travel with honor. At journey's end you're welcomed and dressed in robes of honor, and the One itself gathers you into an embrace.
Man karhalaa mayray saajnaa — "my good friend" camel-mind. The camel-and-desert image returns beautifully as provisioning for a journey: har kharach lee-aa — take the Name as your kharach, travel-supplies. What you carry inwardly is what sustains the crossing. Har dargeh painaa-i-aa — at the journey's end, one is robed with honor. And the song's opening image returns, fulfilled: har aap la-i-aa gal laa-ay — "the One itself takes you into an embrace" — the same gal laa-ay (embrace) that opened Pauri 0. The wandering has become a homecoming.
What "supplies" — inner qualities — do you most want to carry with you through your whole life?
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