Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold the One in mind, and difficulties stop piling up. The road smooths out.
Hold the One in mind, and you begin to hear a music with no player. It is a melody always sounding underneath everything. A good name grows around you. Your heart opens upward like a flower turning to the sun.
This one says that remembering the One lets a hidden music come to the surface.
Two of Gurbani's favorite pictures arrive here. Jaas japat sun anhat Dhunai — remembering Him, one hears the unstruck melody. Anhat means not struck. It is a sound no instrument makes, also called anhad naad. It is the hum of all that exists, which a still mind begins to notice. Think of lying awake at night and slowly hearing sounds that were there all along.
Then kamal seeDhaa ho-ay — the heart-lotus turns upright. Kamal is a lotus flower. In old Indian pictures, a closed heart hangs downward. Waking up turns it upward to bloom toward the light, like a sunflower in the morning.
Nirmal so-ay is a clean reputation, a good name. It does not come from showing off. It grows like the natural scent of a settled life. And the first line promises that difficulties do not pile up.
Have you ever gone quiet enough to notice a sound, or a calm, that was there all along?
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