Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
So here is the real question: is there any place at all that never washes away?
And is there a Word -- a truth to hold -- that can clear the fog from a clouded mind?
This one asks the big question: is there anything that never washes away?
This is the Rahao, the "pause" line, the center of the shabad. It asks two questions, and the whole shabad is here to answer them. Kavan asthaan jo kabahu na tarai — what place never washes away? Kavan sabad jit durmat harai — what Word clears the mind's confusion?
Everything before this shows that ordinary things pass. Everything after searches, world by world, for the one thing that does not. It is like searching every room of a house for the one thing that can never break.
Durmat means muddled, mixed-up thinking. It is treated gently here. It is not wickedness. It is fog, waiting to be cleared.
If everything you can see will change, what would you want to build your life on that won't?
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