Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever speaks the One's praise with their tongue and hears it with their ears is lifted up, my friend.
Hands that lovingly write the One's goodness become pure.
It is like doing every good deed and bathing at all the sacred places at once.
Such people cross the wide world safely and win past what would trap them — the One takes their hand and carries them across.
A Pauri that blesses the body's participation in goodness. Rasnaa uchrai (the tongue speaks it), sarvanee sunai (the ears hear it), hasat... pavitaa (the hands that write it become pure) — mouth, ears, hands all drawn into praise. Then the great leveling comparison: this is worth athsath tirath majnaa, "bathing at the sixty-eight pilgrimage-sites," and sabh punn, "every virtuous deed" — inner devotion equal to and beyond the whole outer machinery of merit, in any tradition. The close is the Vaar's recurring rescue image: larh laa-ay udhaari-an — the One "attaches them to the hem and carries them across," bikhi-aa garh ji-taa, past the "fortress" of what would trap them. Not their own strength; the One's hand.
What is something good you can do with your hands, your voice, and your attention all at once?
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