Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Today I have sat down in the One's shop.
With the One's wealth, the Naam, I have become partners with the humble, and I will not have to walk the road of death.
Trade in the Naam with humble partners, and you walk the road home.
This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line, the center of the shabad. Aaj mai baisi-o har haat means, "Today I have sat down in the One's shop." A haat is a shop or market stall. The picture is a trader opening for business. This shop deals in one thing only, the Naam.
Naam raas means the Naam as your money to trade with. Saajhee kar jan si-o: I have gone into partnership with the humble. So the Sangat — people gathered together to remember the One — is like a business partnership. It is like running a lemonade stand with your best friends, where the goal is sharing. The verse also says I will not have to walk death's road. Put simply, I step off the anxious road and onto the road home.
If your heart were a shop, what would you want it to be full of?
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