O mind, you can always turn around — it is never too late to come home.
The Arc
The shabad opens speaking to one's own mind — what will become of you? — and names the failure to listen and the tangle in harmful things. In the human-life verse it grieves the rare gift half-spent, then closes with the reassurance that even the passing show serves the One, so remembering is coming home to solid ground.
Key Vocabulary
Ray man — O mind. Suni-o kaan — truly listening (suniai), not merely hearing. Bikhi-an — harmful things. Mat naahin fayree — "not turned around yet." Maanas ko janam — human birth, the rare chance. Nimakh — a blink. Chayree — servant or handmaiden (even Maya serves the One).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind addressed as a beloved you can reason with; suniai as deep listening; the human life as a rare opportunity; and Maya as belonging to the One rather than an enemy — the reassuring counterweight to the raag's urgency.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
The third of four; it deepens the raag's tenderness by making the whole address inward — mind speaking to mind.
Translation Notes
The literal daaraa su-kh frames bondage through attachment to a spouse; the project renders it as attachment to comfort in general, deliberately avoiding any framing that casts a spouse, or women, as a trap. Moorakh-type words across the raag are rendered gently rather than as scolding.
O mind, you can always turn around — it is never too late to come home.
The Arc
The shabad opens speaking to one's own mind — what will become of you? — and names the failure to listen and the tangle in harmful things. In the human-life verse it grieves the rare gift half-spent, then closes with the reassurance that even the passing show serves the One, so remembering is coming home to solid ground.
Key Vocabulary
Ray man — O mind. Suni-o kaan — truly listening (suniai), not merely hearing. Bikhi-an — harmful things. Mat naahin fayree — "not turned around yet." Maanas ko janam — human birth, the rare chance. Nimakh — a blink. Chayree — servant or handmaiden (even Maya serves the One).
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind addressed as a beloved you can reason with; suniai as deep listening; the human life as a rare opportunity; and Maya as belonging to the One rather than an enemy — the reassuring counterweight to the raag's urgency.
For Raag Jaijaavantee
The third of four; it deepens the raag's tenderness by making the whole address inward — mind speaking to mind.
Translation Notes
The literal daaraa su-kh frames bondage through attachment to a spouse; the project renders it as attachment to comfort in general, deliberately avoiding any framing that casts a spouse, or women, as a trap. Moorakh-type words across the raag are rendered gently rather than as scolding.