Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My truest friend, divine teacher — light me up with the One's light.
By your instruction the Name becomes the breath I live on, and praising the One becomes my daily work.
The Pause line turns the plea into a whole way of life. The teacher is named "my Best Friend" — devotion as friendship, not fear. And the two gifts asked for become the two pillars of a day: the Name as breath (the involuntary, constant thing that keeps you alive) and praise as occupation (the voluntary, chosen work). Between breath and work, a whole life is covered — the sacred spread across the ordinary, exactly as the raag keeps insisting.
What could be so woven into your days that it feels like both your breathing and your work?
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