Rest your hope, your sorrows, and your whole weight on the One who walks wherever you walk — every other support comes and goes.
The Arc
Guru Ram Das keeps the raag's opening theme — where you place your hope — and widens it into a whole way of leaning on the One.
Verse 1 (P0): serve the One who erases mistakes in an instant; serving the One, every hunger settles.
The Rahau (P1): the refrain — trust the One who goes wherever you go and keeps the honor of those who trust.
Verse 2 (P2): take your sorrows to the One who lifts them, not to the wrong listener who only adds their own.
Verse 3 (P3): love people, but rest your deepest hope on the help that has no conditions.
Verse 4 (P4): the Name is the one hope that holds all the way to the end.
Key Vocabulary
sayvee-ai — to serve, here to keep the One at the center.
kilvikh — sins, accumulated mistakes; dissolved khin meh, in an instant.
bharvaasaa — deep trust, resting your weight on what holds.
birthaa — one's sorrow or inner trouble (told to the wrong listener, it doubles).
antee a-osar — the final moment; the test of what your hope was built on.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad quietly re-orders the heart's attachments without rejecting them: love family and friends, but do not ask finite things to carry an infinite weight. Its move from many hopes to one steady hope echoes the Japji vision of the One who is present sabh meh — in all — so that hoping in the One is never hoping in something far away.
For Raag Gond
This is the second composition of Gond, and Guru Ram Das keeps the tender, coaxing address mayray man (O my mind) that set the raag's keynote. The theme of rightly-placed hope, on which the raag opened, deepens here into trust that travels with you.
Translation Notes
'Die of shame' softened (P2): the literal warning is bent to the quieter regret of carrying a burden you never needed to carry alone.
Memento mori softened (P4): the frightening picture of the last moment is turned toward reassurance — the Name is what stays, not what abandons.
Family honored, not rejected (P3): the self-interest of human care is named as human, not wicked; the teaching re-orders love rather than renouncing it.
Rest your hope, your sorrows, and your whole weight on the One who walks wherever you walk — every other support comes and goes.
The Arc
Guru Ram Das keeps the raag's opening theme — where you place your hope — and widens it into a whole way of leaning on the One.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad quietly re-orders the heart's attachments without rejecting them: love family and friends, but do not ask finite things to carry an infinite weight. Its move from many hopes to one steady hope echoes the Japji vision of the One who is present sabh meh — in all — so that hoping in the One is never hoping in something far away.
For Raag Gond
This is the second composition of Gond, and Guru Ram Das keeps the tender, coaxing address mayray man (O my mind) that set the raag's keynote. The theme of rightly-placed hope, on which the raag opened, deepens here into trust that travels with you.
Translation Notes
Last updated: 2026-07-09