Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the One turns kind and gentle, a person steps into the home of the Fearless.
In an instant the troubles and worries end; Nanak says, they melt into a deep, sky-like peace.
When kindness comes, you step into the home where fear cannot live.
The shabad ends at a place: nirbhai kai ghar, the home of the Fearless One. Fear runs quietly under the chains named in the first verse. We grab, get angry and show off mostly because we are afraid. To enter the Fearless One's home is to arrive where fear has no place to stand.
Bha-ay kirpaal da-i-aal gupaalaa — when the One becomes kind and gentle, it happens. Kal kalays mitay khin bheetar — troubles and worries end in an instant. It does not take long labor. It is a change of home, like coming in from a storm to a warm kitchen. Then Nanak melts into sahj, an easy, settled calm. That calm is the free heart's natural weather.
What in you would relax if you truly lived, even for a day, in a 'home' where fear had no footing?
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