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Sikhism·Raag Saarang·Shabad 168
Verse 37 of 110

The Name Awakens Awareness

ਪਉੜੀ ॥
pa-orhee.
Pauree:
ਨਾਇ ਮੰਨਿਐ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਊਪਜੈ ਨਾਮੇ ਮਤਿ ਹੋਈ ॥
naa-ay mani-ai surat oopjai naamay mat ho-ee.
With faith in the Name, intuitive awareness wells up; through the Name, intelligence comes.
ਨਾਇ ਮੰਨਿਐ ਗੁਣ ਉਚਰੈ ਨਾਮੇ ਸੁਖਿ ਸੋਈ ॥
naa-ay mani-ai gun uchrai naamay sukh so-ee.
With faith in the Name, chant the Glories of God; through the Name, peace is obtained.
ਨਾਇ ਮੰਨਿਐ ਭ੍ਰਮੁ ਕਟੀਐ ਫਿਰਿ ਦੁਖੁ ਨ ਹੋਈ ॥
naa-ay mani-ai bharam katee-ai fir dukh na ho-ee.
With faith in the Name, doubt is eradicated, and the mortal never suffers again.
ਨਾਇ ਮੰਨਿਐ ਸਾਲਾਹੀਐ ਪਾਪਾਂ ਮਤਿ ਧੋਈ ॥
naa-ay mani-ai salaahee-ai paapaaN mat Dho-ee.
With faith in the Name, sing His Praises, and your sinful intellect shall be washed clean.
ਨਾਨਕ ਪੂਰੇ ਗੁਰ ਤੇ ਨਾਉ ਮੰਨੀਐ ਜਿਨ ਦੇਵੈ ਸੋਈ ॥੧੨॥
naanak pooray gur tay naa-o mannee-ai jin dayvai so-ee. ||12||
O Nanak, through the Perfect Guru, one comes to have faith in the Name; they alone receive it, unto whom He gives it. ||12||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

When you live from the Naam, a clear inner awareness wakes up in you, and understanding comes on its own. Your voice sings the goodness of the One, and a quiet peace settles in.

The doubts that used to pull you in circles get cut away, and the heaviness lifts. Singing with a full heart washes the mind clean and fresh. Nanak says: this trust in the Naam grows through the Perfect Guru, and it comes as a gift to the one who receives it.

Living from what is true wakes up a clear kind of seeing that no amount of worrying could give you.
The deeper layer

Pauri 12. Surat (awareness) and mat (understanding) well up; bhram (doubt) is cut away. Paapaa mat dhoee: the mind that went wrong is washed clean. The close, jin dayvai so-ee, marks the trust as itself grace — received, not manufactured — as in the parallel Mannai pauris.

A Question to Sit With

What is a worry that goes in circles for you — and what helps it settle?

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI

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