Chant the Name day and night, hold what is real over what only passes, and rest your heart on the Undying One — the one treasure that is always welcomed home.
The Arc
P0 (rahau merged with verse 1) sets the practice and the weighing: chant Raam, Raam with the tongue day and night, and old wrongs wash away; gathered riches stay behind, our days are precious and finite, and clinging to what passes leaves one empty. P1 gives the resolution: rest the mind on the True Being, the Undying Form, and gather the one treasure — the Name — that lasts and is always accepted.
Key Vocabulary
Rasnaa raam raam bakhaan (P0): with the tongue, chant the Name — the raag's practice.
Kalmal haan (P0): old wrongs washed away — a fresh start, not a threat.
Kaal sir par (P0): the reminder that our time is finite — rendered gently.
Sat purakh akaal moorat (P1): the True Being, the Undying Form — echoing the Mool Mantar.
Naam nidhaan laabh / parvaan (P1): the treasure of the Name, the one profit that is accepted.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad weighs sach against jhooth — the real against the passing — and lands on the project's understanding of Naam as what truly lasts and carries forward. Sat purakh akaal moorat echoes the words of the Mool Mantar, closing the raag's opening group of shabads on the One beyond time.
For Raag Kaydaaraa
Guru Arjan's Mehl 5 shabad, thirteenth in the raag and the last of this batch. Its Mool Mantar echo makes a fitting close, gathering the raag's raam naam devotion into the Undying One held in the heart.
Translation Notes
"Death is hanging over your head" (kaal sir par, P0): rendered as our days being precious and not lasting forever — the teaching that time is finite is kept, without any figure of terror for children.
Chant the Name day and night, hold what is real over what only passes, and rest your heart on the Undying One — the one treasure that is always welcomed home.
The Arc
P0 (rahau merged with verse 1) sets the practice and the weighing: chant Raam, Raam with the tongue day and night, and old wrongs wash away; gathered riches stay behind, our days are precious and finite, and clinging to what passes leaves one empty. P1 gives the resolution: rest the mind on the True Being, the Undying Form, and gather the one treasure — the Name — that lasts and is always accepted.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad weighs sach against jhooth — the real against the passing — and lands on the project's understanding of Naam as what truly lasts and carries forward. Sat purakh akaal moorat echoes the words of the Mool Mantar, closing the raag's opening group of shabads on the One beyond time.
For Raag Kaydaaraa
Guru Arjan's Mehl 5 shabad, thirteenth in the raag and the last of this batch. Its Mool Mantar echo makes a fitting close, gathering the raag's raam naam devotion into the Undying One held in the heart.
Translation Notes