Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Sing what is good about the One around the clock, and let the other tangles fall away.
When you live this way, wrapped in the One's kindness, nothing frightening can even find you.
A Shalok whose source line is jamkankar johi na sak-ee — "the Messenger of Death cannot even glimpse that person." Per the wellbeing rules, the terror-figure of Death is not staged; instead the meaning is carried by its comfort: when you are held in prabhoo daiaal (the merciful One), "nothing frightening can even find you." Aath pahar means "all eight watches of the day" — the whole day round, steadiness rather than special hours. Tajee-ah avar janjaal — "let the other entanglements fall away" — is release, not grim renunciation: the tangles simply lose their pull when the heart is fixed on what lasts.
What is one "tangle" you'd like to let quietly fall away?
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