ਸੁਣਿ ਸੁਣਿ ਜੀਵਉ ਮਨਿ ਇਹੁ ਬਿਸ੍ਰਾਮੁ ॥
sun sun jeeva-o man ih bisraam.
Hearing, hearing Your Name, I live; this is my mind's consolation.
ਪਾਪ ਖੰਡਨ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਤੇਰੋ ਨਾਮੁ ॥
paap khandan parabh tayro naam.
Your Name, God, is the Destroyer of sins.
ਤੂ ਅਗਨਤੁ ਜੀਅ ਕਾ ਦਾਤਾ ॥
too agnat jee-a kaa daataa.
You, O Limitless Lord, are the Giver of the soul.
ਜਿਸਹਿ ਜਣਾਵਹਿ ਤਿਨਿ ਤੂ ਜਾਤਾ ॥੩॥
jisahi janaaveh tin too jaataa. ||3||
He alone knows You, unto whom You reveal Yourself. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I hear Your Name, again and again, I come alive — it is my mind's comfort.
Your Name clears away the wrongs that weigh me down.
You, the Limitless One, give every soul its life.
Only the one You make Yourself known to comes to know You.
Listening for the One again and again brings you back to life.
Sun sun jeeva-o — deep listening (suniai) that revives. Paap khandan: the Name breaks apart the burden of wrongs, framed as relief rather than punishment. Jisahi janaaveh tin too jaataa: you are known only by the one to whom the One reveals itself — knowing as grace, not conquest.
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