Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Today is the new moon — the night the sky goes dark and quiet, and a brand-new moon begins to grow. My soul is calm. I have been given the quiet gift of contentment: the feeling that what I have is enough.
My mind and body feel cool and settled, at ease, as I give myself to serving the One. The knots that tied me up come loose. Whatever I set my hands to comes out well.
When I hold the Name in my heart — keeping the One in mind the way you keep someone you love in your thoughts — my tangled thinking clears and the feeling of being a separate, cut-off self quietly lets go.
I have stepped inside the shelter of the One, and my restless wandering comes to rest. And I do not cross alone — my whole family crosses with me, singing what is wonderful. This is where peace is found.
Amaavas, the new moon, opens the closing pair of the lunar cycle. It is a beautiful day to begin the teaching on, because the dark sky is not empty — it is a fresh start, a moon about to grow. The source piles up the fruits of a settled soul: santokh (contentment) given by the Guru; seetal, saant, sahj — cool, calm, natural ease; broken bandhan (bonds); durmat (tangled thinking) cleared and haumai (the sense of separateness) released, all simrat har ko naam — through holding the Name. Note the grace-not-calendar lens the whole bani rests on: nothing here happens because it is the new moon. The new moon is only the memory-hook. Peace arrives through remembrance, shelter, and service — available on any night of any month. The line aap tariaa kutamb sio — "he crosses along with his family" — is quietly radical: this is not a private escape but a shelter wide enough to carry the people you love.
What is one thing you already have that is truly enough — that you could feel content with tonight?
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