Even your longing was a gift — and the One who plants the thirst fills it.
The Arc
A plea to be tuned for continuous remembrance; the One is named as the source of the very peace, goodness, and wealth whose absence we call misery (P0). The Pause line makes the Name kin — the companion for the one road walked alone (P1). Its theological heart: even the longing for the One was grace-planted, and the hand that plants the thirst fills it (P2). The sober warning — a rare human life can go flat and wasted without a center (P3) — resolves in an embrace: the one who takes shelter is congratulated and gathered in (P4).
Key Vocabulary
"tune my mind" — being made able to remember, not boasting ability (P0).
saathee / veer — companion / brother; the Name as kin for the final road (P1).
"infused longing" — the ache itself as a grace-given sign of being sought (P2).
"embraces him and blends him" — welcome and merger, not judgment (P4).
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Even your longing is a gift" (P2) is one of the raag's most consoling notes and belongs with the project's grace-before-effort thread (the Stone in the Boat, Sukhmani). "The Name as the companion at the end" (P1) restates the wealth-that-travels of Shabad 3 P3. "Pleasures go flat without a center" (P3) is the raag's psychology of desire, kin to the crow's misdirected taste in Shabad 10.
Translation Notes
P3 SSK's "his face is spat upon, again and again" is rendered as dignity lost — keeping the teaching (the self-respect the endless chase costs) while dropping the humiliation-image, per the voice rules.
For Raag Goojaree
Ram Das's tenderest reassurance: you did not manufacture your own search, and the search will not end at a locked door but in an embrace.
Even your longing was a gift — and the One who plants the thirst fills it.
The Arc
A plea to be tuned for continuous remembrance; the One is named as the source of the very peace, goodness, and wealth whose absence we call misery (P0). The Pause line makes the Name kin — the companion for the one road walked alone (P1). Its theological heart: even the longing for the One was grace-planted, and the hand that plants the thirst fills it (P2). The sober warning — a rare human life can go flat and wasted without a center (P3) — resolves in an embrace: the one who takes shelter is congratulated and gathered in (P4).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
"Even your longing is a gift" (P2) is one of the raag's most consoling notes and belongs with the project's grace-before-effort thread (the Stone in the Boat, Sukhmani). "The Name as the companion at the end" (P1) restates the wealth-that-travels of Shabad 3 P3. "Pleasures go flat without a center" (P3) is the raag's psychology of desire, kin to the crow's misdirected taste in Shabad 10.
Translation Notes
For Raag Goojaree
Ram Das's tenderest reassurance: you did not manufacture your own search, and the search will not end at a locked door but in an embrace.