Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
To all who tally up this world and the next: write down whatever you like about me — it's fine.
Nothing can hold me now, for I have set down every tangle and burden that once weighed me.
This pauri is about total freedom. Ravidas cheerfully tells the cosmic "accountants" — the record-keepers people imagined tallying every deed — write whatever you want; it doesn't trouble me. Why so carefree? Because he has "cast off all entanglements" (sarab janjaal) — the knots of craving and fear that used to bind him. The original mentions the "club of Death's messenger"; handled gently here, the meaning is simply that nothing can strike or bind a free heart anymore. Freedom from inner tangles is freedom from fear itself.
What's one "tangle" — a worry or a wanting — you'd feel lighter setting down?
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