Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I give myself completely to those who keep the nectar-sweet Word living in their minds. They settle that sweet Word deep inside, and from there they hold the nectar-sweet Name in loving awareness all the time. The Word lives in them, and the Name flows through them.
This is the verse's promise: let the sweet Word settle inside you, and the sweet Name will flow through your whole day.
This is the Rahao, the "pause" line. It is the center of the song, the line everything else circles around. It puts two sweet things side by side. The bani is the sacred Word you hear and sing. The Naam is the Name, the One held gently in your mind. They work as a team. First the Word settles into your mind (man vasaa-ay). Then, out of that settled Word, the Name flows in steady remembering (Dhi-aavani-aa). Hearing leads to living with it. Living with it leads to remembering.
That steady remembering is called simran. It isn't a once-a-day chore. The Word moves in and stays, like a song stuck in your head. Only this is the best song you could have humming under everything you do, quietly making it all sweeter.
The line opens with "ha-o vaaree jee-o vaaree" — I give my whole self to these people. The singer isn't praising them from a polite distance. The singer bows to anyone who lives this way and wants to be near them. That is the heart of sat sangat, good company. People who keep the sweet Word alive are precious to be around, because their sweetness spreads. Loving them, and wanting to be near them, is already the start of drinking the nectar.
What's a "song" — a thought, a phrase, a feeling — that you'd love to have quietly running underneath your whole day?
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