The hunger that never fills wears a life down — but the One's mercy keeps the gentle-hearted, and the shelter is open to you.
The Arc
This Chaupade opens a new House (Ghar 5) under its own brief invocation. The rahau names pride, clinging, and endless wanting that are never quenched, wearing the world ragged. Three verses trace a life slipping through the fingers unused; a heart lost in a darkness of its own anger and clinging; cruelty and greed that promise and rob while the One stands quietly near, unnoticed, and ego charges around blind. The fourth verse turns: the One's mercy keeps the gentle-hearted safe on the firm ground of the One, and — palms pressed together — anyone may step into that shelter.
Key Vocabulary
trisnaa — the hunger that never fills.
a-odh bitee asaar — a life passing unused.
tam moh andhaar — the self-made darkness of clinging.
gobind gupt ni-aaro — the One, hidden and unattached, quietly near.
saran — the shelter, the sanctuary.
Themes and Cross-Connections
This shabad — the raag's one Ghar-5 Chaupade — gathers the warnings about restless hunger and lands, like the shabads around it, in refuge and mercy.
For Raag Saarang
The longing raag looks honestly at what wastes a life, then opens the door to shelter.
Translation Notes
The heaviest imagery is bent toward hope: narak udar (burning in the hellish womb) and being destroyed by death are dropped, their kernel carried as a life slipping by unused and a self-made darkness one can step out of; par daroh and nindaa (fraud, cruelty, slander) become losing one's way rather than a verdict on a person; the wild-elephant ego is kept as the blindness of pride; the whole lands, as the verse does, on open shelter and mercy.
The hunger that never fills wears a life down — but the One's mercy keeps the gentle-hearted, and the shelter is open to you.
The Arc
This Chaupade opens a new House (Ghar 5) under its own brief invocation. The rahau names pride, clinging, and endless wanting that are never quenched, wearing the world ragged. Three verses trace a life slipping through the fingers unused; a heart lost in a darkness of its own anger and clinging; cruelty and greed that promise and rob while the One stands quietly near, unnoticed, and ego charges around blind. The fourth verse turns: the One's mercy keeps the gentle-hearted safe on the firm ground of the One, and — palms pressed together — anyone may step into that shelter.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
This shabad — the raag's one Ghar-5 Chaupade — gathers the warnings about restless hunger and lands, like the shabads around it, in refuge and mercy.
For Raag Saarang
The longing raag looks honestly at what wastes a life, then opens the door to shelter.
Translation Notes
The heaviest imagery is bent toward hope: narak udar (burning in the hellish womb) and being destroyed by death are dropped, their kernel carried as a life slipping by unused and a self-made darkness one can step out of; par daroh and nindaa (fraud, cruelty, slander) become losing one's way rather than a verdict on a person; the wild-elephant ego is kept as the blindness of pride; the whole lands, as the verse does, on open shelter and mercy.