Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you repeat and remember the One, your restless mind grows still and steady. It is like a boat that stops rocking and rests on calm water.
This line says that remembering the One makes a restless mind steady.
It is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line — the center of the shabad. Har jap japay man Dheeray — repeating and remembering the One, the mind becomes Dheer, steady and calm. This little shabad is made of very short verses, each one a single breath. The pause line is the simplest of all. No long argument, no big picture. Just a plain fact.
Left alone, the mind is restless. It hops from a worry to a want and back to a worry, like a small boat rocking on choppy water. Keeping the One in mind is what steadies it. Think of how a glass of muddy water clears when you stop shaking it and let it sit. Each short verse after this adds one more quick stroke to the same picture.
What actually steadies your mind when it won't stop rocking?
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