Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your Naam brings a natural, settled peace. Your Naam brings praise.
Your Naam is the sweet nectar that clears out the poison inside.
Through Your Naam, every peace and comfort comes to live in the mind.
Without the Naam, people are tied up tight and led away to the city of death.
The Naam brings a settled peace and washes out what poisons you inside.
Naa-ay tayrai sahj: Your Naam brings sahj, a natural, settled calm. It also brings saalaah, praise.
Amrit bikh uth jaa-ay: the Naam is amrit, sweet nectar, and the bikh, the poison, is lifted out. The poison here means clinging too hard to things. Think of a glass of muddy water under a running tap. Keep the clean water flowing, and the mud washes out.
Sabh sukh vaseh man aa-ay: every comfort comes to live in the mind.
The last line speaks of the opposite. It uses an old picture of being tied up and led to the City of Death. A life lived without the Naam is held tight by its own knots, and it meets its end bound up in them.
What helps clear away a bitter or heavy feeling and leave you lighter?
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