Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A bad name is wiped clean, a person is welcomed the world over, and finds a seat at the One's court.
The dread of death lifts in an instant, and they go to the One's home in peace and joy.
The shabad opens with reputation restored — "his bad reputation is erased." This is grace repairing what a person's past had broken; the record cleared, they are "acclaimed all over the world" and seated with honor. And the great terror — death — loses its grip "in an instant," turning the final journey from something feared into a homecoming "in peace and bliss." Both the social wound (a ruined name) and the existential one (fear of dying) are healed by the same grace.
Which weighs on you more: what others think of you, or a deeper fear underneath? Could both ease at once?
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