Raag Goojaree
Commentary

Raag Goojaree, Fifth Mehl, Ti-Padas (Guru Arjan)

The fire of wanting cools when something that stays is planted.

The Arc

Sorrows end and the fire of desire cools, quenched by a planted, permanent treasure (P0). The Pause line's sequence — grace, then good company, then freedom (P1). The freed person stays level through fortune and misfortune, seeing the Creator in both (P2); and the close rests on belonging and a mercy beyond words (P3).

Key Vocabulary

  • "fire of desire quenched" — restlessness cooled by what stays, not by willpower (P0).
  • grace to company to freedom — the order of liberation in the Pause line (P1).
  • "unaffected by fortune and misfortune" — equanimity from seeing one hand in all (P2).
  • "belong to Him" — safety from belonging, not qualification (P3).

Themes and Cross-Connections

Equanimity through seeing "the Creator in it all" (P2) is a raag-wide steadiness (compare B00C1044 acceptance, Mehl 9's coming coolness). "Grace, then company, then freedom" (P1) states the block's recurring order — we are led, not self-made. The permanent Name that "neither dies nor goes" (P0) echoes B00C1046 P5.

For Raag Goojaree

A short, restful shabad: name what stays, and the fire that chased what flees goes quietly out.

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