Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind and my body do business only with the One.
Soaked in loving devotion, I sing the One's praises, and the world cannot knock me around.
My whole self trades in only one thing, the One, and that keeps me steady.
Bi-uhaar means trade or business. Man tan raam ko bi-uhaar pictures your whole self as a shop that sells only one thing: the One.
Paraym bhagat means loving devotion. Soaked in that love and praise, a person is pohat nah sansaar, not knocked around by the world. This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line, the center of the shabad.
That doesn't mean they feel nothing. It means their roots hold. Think of a boat with a good anchor. The waves still move, but the boat doesn't drift away. That steadiness is sahaj, the calm of a heart held by something that doesn't shake.
What keeps you steady when things around you keep changing?
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