Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold the One in mind, and countless old mistakes are simply wiped clean.
Hold the One in mind, and you grow into a good and gentle person; your mind cools, and everything that clouded it washes away.
This one says that remembering the One wipes old mistakes clean.
Jaas japat kot miteh apraaDh — remembering Him, millions of mistakes are erased. Kot means millions. ApraaDh means wrongs, mistakes. This is grace at its most comforting. The past is not held against you forever. Remembering wipes the slate clean, like a whiteboard at the end of the school day.
Har hoveh saaDh — one becomes a saaDh, a good and gentle soul. This happens by being drawn upward, not by punishment. Man seetal hovai — the mind is cooled again. And mal saglee khovai — all the mal, the dirt, washes away. That dirt is the film of ego and worry over the mind. The picture is of washing and mercy, never blame.
What would it feel like to know your worst mistake could be truly washed clean?
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