Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
For the One's servant, singing the One's praise is everything. It is their worship and their deep meditation. It is their discipline and their devotions.
Nanak has come into the shelter of the One and received the gift of fearlessness and peace.
Singing the One's praise holds every other practice inside it.
Jap tap sanjam karam Dharam — repeating the Name, deep practice, self-control, good deeds and duties. People often treat these as separate jobs. For the servant, all of them are found in one happy act: har keertan, singing the One's praise. Praise holds them all, like one backpack that carries every book.
Then comes the gift. Nanak takes shelter with the Master. Abhai daan sukh paa-i-o — he receives the gift of no fear, and peace. It is not earned. It is given when you arrive. The simple servant of the first verse, held like a child in the pause line, ends up fearless and at peace, just by singing.
What is one simple, glad practice that does more for your peace than a dozen complicated ones?
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