ਬੈਠਤ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਸੋਵਤ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਰਸੁ ਭੋਜਨੁ ਖਾਤਾ ॥
baithat har har sovat har har har ras bhojan khaataa.
While sitting, he repeats the Lord's Name, Har, Har; while sleeping, he repeats the Lord's Name, Har, Har; he eats the Nectar of the Lord's Name as his food.
ਅਠਸਠਿ ਤੀਰਥ ਮਜਨੁ ਕੀਨੋ ਸਾਧੂ ਧੂਰੀ ਨਾਤਾ ॥੧॥
athsath tirath majan keeno saaDhoo Dhooree naataa. ||1||
Bathing in the dust of the feet of the Holy is equal to taking cleansing baths at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Sitting, he says the Name; sleeping, he says the Name; the Name is the food he eats.
Bathing in the dust of the feet of the good equals bathing at all sixty-eight holy places.
Devotion at its fullest isn't an event but a continuous climate — woven through sitting, sleeping, and eating.
The verse pictures remembrance woven through every posture — sitting, sleeping, eating — the Name as constant as breath and as nourishing as food. And it repeats the raag's relocation of pilgrimage into humble company. Devotion here is not an event but a continuous climate of a life.
A Question to Sit With
What good could become as constant in your day as eating and sleeping?
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