Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Say the One's name, and what troubles you is consumed; there is no other way.
Be merciful, my God, and give Nanak the taste of the Name.
The close speaks of enemies "consumed" — best heard, in this inner-focused raag, as the inner adversaries (craving, anger, fear) that trouble a person, undone by remembrance. "There is no other way" is emphatic: the speaker has ruled out the alternatives. And the final line is disarmingly humble — after all the promises, he asks not for victory but for taste: "bestow the taste of the Naam." He wants not to conquer but to savor. The whole path resolves into a request for sweetness.
What would it mean to want to savor a good thing rather than to conquer or achieve it?
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