Set down the clever tricks; listen, and fear falls away.
The Arc
This opens the Ghar 6 Du-Padas (two-stanza shabads). Abandon clever schemes and pride, sit with the wise, and let the tongue keep the sweet Name. The Pause: listen to the Name, and the weight of old mistakes washes clean — and then nothing is left to fear. Pain, lack and fear lose their grip; keeping the One near is named the very heart of wisdom.
Key Vocabulary
Du-Padas — two-stanza shabads
Sun har naam — listen to the Name (suniai — deep listening)
Tat giaan — the essence of wisdom
Themes and Cross-Connections
Suniai — deep listening — is the doorway here; what is listened to (the Name) is also what quiets fear. The clever-tricks-to-simplicity movement recurs across this Du-Pada set.
For Raag Maaroo
Fear is disarmed not by force but by listening — a gentle answer in the raag of dread.
Translation Notes
The literal's "wretched Messenger of Death" (jaam) is dropped per Maaroo wellbeing care; the kernel kept is that nothing is left to be afraid of. "Sins of many lifetimes" is rendered as the weight of long-ago mistakes.
Set down the clever tricks; listen, and fear falls away.
The Arc
This opens the Ghar 6 Du-Padas (two-stanza shabads). Abandon clever schemes and pride, sit with the wise, and let the tongue keep the sweet Name. The Pause: listen to the Name, and the weight of old mistakes washes clean — and then nothing is left to fear. Pain, lack and fear lose their grip; keeping the One near is named the very heart of wisdom.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Suniai — deep listening — is the doorway here; what is listened to (the Name) is also what quiets fear. The clever-tricks-to-simplicity movement recurs across this Du-Pada set.
For Raag Maaroo
Fear is disarmed not by force but by listening — a gentle answer in the raag of dread.
Translation Notes
The literal's "wretched Messenger of Death" (jaam) is dropped per Maaroo wellbeing care; the kernel kept is that nothing is left to be afraid of. "Sins of many lifetimes" is rendered as the weight of long-ago mistakes.
Last updated: 2026-07-09