Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
They praise the One with the tongue and live close to it, doing whatever pleases the One.
Without the Name, a life runs empty in the world, and every passing moment is wasted.
The verse pairs the fruitful life with its opposite. The fruitful: praise on the tongue, nearness to the One, and action aligned with what pleases it. The empty: "without the Lord's Name, life passes in vain... every moment is useless." The measure of a moment is not its productivity or pleasure but whether it holds any remembrance. A moment full of the One is never wasted; a busy moment empty of it is. This is the raag's economy of time.
Which of your 'busy' moments are actually full, and which are empty? What makes the difference?
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