Make the Name your daily trade, and it becomes your wealth, your companion, your home, and your fearlessness.
The Arc
Verse 1 (P0): the Name is my daily business, my mind's support and my heart's shelter; holding it, mistakes fall away.
The Rahau (P1): the One blessed me with the wealth of the Name; my one wish is to keep it, with the teaching near.
Verse 2 (P2): the Name travels everywhere with me; grown sweet, it lets me see the One in all things.
Verse 3 (P3): through the Name, life stands clear and settled — it has become home.
Verse 4 (P4): through the Name I am fearless, restlessness stilled, at home in natural peace.
Key Vocabulary
bi-uhaar — trade, dealing; life re-imagined as commerce in the Name.
raas — capital, the wealth you trade with; here given, not earned.
ot / adhaar — shelter and support.
geedh — accustomed, settled in, like a bird in its nest.
sukh sahj nivaas — a dwelling in sahaj, natural ease.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The whole shabad turns on a single metaphor — the Name as wealth and trade — and follows it to its fruit: not riches but nirbha-o, fearlessness, and sahaj, the settled ease of a soul no longer fighting its nature. That the wealth is given (grace) rather than bought keeps it squarely within the project's reading of Gurprasad.
For Raag Gond
Gond's steady pulse suits the repeated naam ... naamo of this shabad, each line returning to the one word like a refrain within the verses.
Make the Name your daily trade, and it becomes your wealth, your companion, your home, and your fearlessness.
The Arc
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The whole shabad turns on a single metaphor — the Name as wealth and trade — and follows it to its fruit: not riches but nirbha-o, fearlessness, and sahaj, the settled ease of a soul no longer fighting its nature. That the wealth is given (grace) rather than bought keeps it squarely within the project's reading of Gurprasad.
For Raag Gond
Gond's steady pulse suits the repeated naam ... naamo of this shabad, each line returning to the one word like a refrain within the verses.
Last updated: 2026-07-09