Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
With every breath, in and out, Nanak praises the One. As I hold the Name and remember it, all the ropes that tied me down are cut loose. In a single instant, my deepest hopes were filled, just by singing the wonders of the One — the One, the One, the One.
The shabad closes by gathering its threads into continuous remembrance and swift grace. Saas saas Naanak saalaahe — "with saas saas (every breath), Nanak saalaahe (praises)." The section's signature image of breath-by-breath remembrance (Shabad 14, Shabad 22, Shabad 31) returns as the final practice: praise woven into breathing itself, as natural and constant as being alive.
And its effect: simrat naam kaate sabh faahe — "simrat (remembering) the Naam, all the faahe (snares, nooses, traps) are kaate (cut)." Recall the silak (noose) and bandhan (bonds) cut in earlier shabads (Shabad 13, Shabad 21, Shabad 23). Here the bonds are faahe — snares, the traps we get caught in. And they are all cut (sabh) by remembrance. The fears, the clinging, the suffering named in the previous verse — all the snares that hold us — are severed by holding the Name. And not by our own struggling to escape; by remembering, the snares simply fall away.
The climax names the speed of grace: pooran aas karee khin bheetar — "[the One] made [my] aas (hopes) pooran (fulfilled, complete) khin bheetar (in an instant, within a moment)." Recall the khin maahi salvation of the holy company (Shabad 27) and the khin bheetar greening of the world (Shabad 28). What years of striving could not do, grace does in a khin — a heartbeat. The hopes the seeker carried (and the universal satisfaction of P1) are fulfilled instantly.
And the final note is the rhythm of the Name itself: har har har gun jaape — "remembering the qualities of the One — Har, Har, Har." Three times the Name, the heartbeat of remembrance (recall the note in earlier shabads that the repeated Name is its own practice). The doubling and tripling of Har is not redundancy but the actual sound of simran — the Name said over and over, breath by breath. The arc completes: the rain of grace falls by Hukam and brings cool peace (Rahao); the One creates overflowing abundance and satisfies all (P1); rooting in the permanent One cuts fear and sorrow (P2); and finally, breath-by-breath praise cuts every snare and fulfills all hope in an instant (P3). Signed with the lineage's name, Nanak. The longed-for rain has come, the snares are cut, and the heart beats with the Name.
The verse ends with the Name repeated — "Har, Har, Har" — like a heartbeat. Why do you think repeating something, over and over, can settle and free the heart in a way that thinking about it once cannot?
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