Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The medicine of the Name heals. It comes to the one who receives it as a gift, when grace quietly places it in their hands.
Whoever carries the Name alive in their heart finds their aches and sorrows loosening and fading away.
This one says the Name is a medicine, and it comes as a gift.
Naam a-ukhadh — the Name is medicine, a cure for every ache. But the verse is careful about how it arrives. Kar kirpaa jis aap divaavai — it comes to the one the One gives it to, out of kirpaa, grace. It is received, never grabbed.
This connects to the first verse of the shabad. There, all the clever efforts only piled on weight. Here, the healing comes as a present. Think of a friend who brings you soup when you are sick. You did not earn it. You just open the door.
Then the promise. Dookh darad tih naanak nasai — O Nanak, pains and sorrows leave the heart where the Name lives. Grace is always here. What changes is that we become open enough to receive it.
What's something good in your life that came to you, rather than something you forced?
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