Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
After a long, long journey, here you are — given this precious human life, so rare and full of possibility.
This chance is a gift; make good use of it. Keep the Naam in mind, and the knots that bind you come loose; the restless coming and going quiets down when your heart rests in the One.
Please, kind Maker, pour Your mercy — draw Nanak close and hold him. He trusts that You will.
This human life is a rare gift after a long journey; use it to remember the One.
Faffa is the "precious human life" Pauri. Firat firat too aa-i-aa — after long wandering, you have arrived; durlabh dayh... paa-i-aa, this hard-to-obtain human body is granted. The kalijug, the Dark Age, stays in the background of a long journey. Naam japahu ta-o katee-ah faasaa — remembering the Naam loosens the knots, the faasaa or noose. The aavan jaan, the coming-and-going of rebirth, is a restless coming and going that quiets. The close is a tender first-person prayer, mayl layho... baychaaray — "unite me." Baychaaray, "poor one," becomes a plea of trust, sure of being answered: empty hands held out to grace.
If this life is a rare and precious gift, what is one thing you'd most want to do with it?
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