Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The one who has the One of the universe as their help and support
is blessed with peace, poise and bliss; no troubles cling to them.
The refrain states the whole shabad's premise: the one whose "help and support" is the One is given "peace, poise and bliss," and — the key phrase — "no afflictions cling to him." Note the word cling. Troubles still come; the world still churns. But they do not stick to the one rooted in the One; they pass over like water off a surface that won't hold them. This is not a magic shield against all difficulty but a change in what difficulty can do to you. The support of the One does not remove the storms; it makes you the kind of thing storms slide off of rather than soak into.
What's the difference between never having troubles and having troubles that don't 'stick' to you? What makes something slide off?
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