Plant the Name in the field of your life, and your whole self turns green.
The Arc
Love and good company make the self "blossom green," the Name is tasted like nectar and sown like a seed in the body-field, the thirst of forgetting is named gently, and the shabad ends in the safety of asking.
Key Vocabulary
bairaagee - lovingly detached, free inside
har ras - the essence, the sweetness of the One
tan dhartee - the body as a field
amrit - nectar
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body-field and the seed of the Name (growth imagery); tasting over merely knowing; good company as the safe ground for planting.
For Raag Maaroo
Against the raag's mortality, the shabad answers with living green - the self that blossoms now.
Translation Notes
Pauri3's severe imagery (a "cursed" life, "manure," "stinking rot," forced rebirth) is dropped and reframed as "an endless thirst that grabbing cannot fill," a restlessness that ends by turning back; "traahi traahi" softened from "begging, imploring" to "again and again I come."
Plant the Name in the field of your life, and your whole self turns green.
The Arc
Love and good company make the self "blossom green," the Name is tasted like nectar and sown like a seed in the body-field, the thirst of forgetting is named gently, and the shabad ends in the safety of asking.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The body-field and the seed of the Name (growth imagery); tasting over merely knowing; good company as the safe ground for planting.
For Raag Maaroo
Against the raag's mortality, the shabad answers with living green - the self that blossoms now.
Translation Notes
Pauri3's severe imagery (a "cursed" life, "manure," "stinking rot," forced rebirth) is dropped and reframed as "an endless thirst that grabbing cannot fill," a restlessness that ends by turning back; "traahi traahi" softened from "begging, imploring" to "again and again I come."
Last updated: 2026-07-09