Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you keep the nectar-sweet Name living in your mind, all the pain that comes from "me, me, mine" simply melts away. Keep praising the nectar-sweet words of the divine, and something wonderful happens: through the nectar, you reach the nectar itself. The sweetness leads you deeper into more sweetness.
This verse says: keep the sweet Name in your heart, and the pain of "me and mine" melts away.
One word fills this whole song: amrit. It means nectar, the sweet drink that, in old stories, lets whoever drinks it never die. Guru Amar Das gives that old picture a new home. The Naam (the Name, the living presence of the One) is the nectar. So is the bani, the sacred Word. You don't have to dig it up from the bottom of some far-off ocean. You taste it whenever the Name lives in your heart. Hear how the word keeps coming back: amrit, amrit, amrit. It washes over the verse like the sweetness it names.
The second line says how it works. "Ha-umai mayraa sabh dukh gavaa-ay" — all the pain of "I" and "mine" goes away. Ha-umai is the lonely "I." Mayraa is the grabbing "mine." So much of our hurt comes from guarding and feeding that separate self. The nectar doesn't fight it head-on. It simply fills the space. Think of a mouth full of honey. There's no room left for a bitter taste.
The last line is the loveliest. "Amrit amrit paavni-aa" — through the nectar, you reach the nectar. Each taste makes you want more, and gives you room for more. You praise the sweet Word, it fills you, and you praise again. The world's treats fade and leave you emptier. The tradition calls them kachaa, things that don't last. This sweetness grows the more you drink. It is the road and the place you arrive.
What's something good in your life that makes you want *more* of it the more you have — instead of getting boring or empty?
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