Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The teacher has planted the Name deep in me — the One who can shape and reshape everything that is.
So keep the One close in your heart, my friend, and the weight you have been carrying will lift.
A tender Fifth-Mehl Shalok — after the long stretch on ill-will, the tone turns intimate and reassuring. Gur naanak har naam drirh-aa-i-aa — the teacher "planted" the Name firmly within — and the One is bhannan gharhan samrath, able to break down and build up, to shape and reshape all things. The second line is direct comfort spoken friend-to-friend: prabh sadaa samaaleh mitar too, dukh sabaa-i-aa lath — "keep the One always in your heart, my friend, and all your suffering lifts." Mitar — "friend" — is the warm register; this is not command but companionship. The Vaar is beginning to gather itself toward its gentle close, moving from the hard truths about bitterness back to the one steady practice that eases everything: keeping the One near.
When you are weighed down, who or what do you keep close to feel lighter — and could remembering the One be one of those things?
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