Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Now the nagging doubt and the heavy sorrow I carried have simply lifted.
I set down all my other schemes and strategies and came instead to rest in the safe shelter of the Guru.
Worry and sorrow lifted when I stopped scrambling and came to rest.
This is the Rahao, the "pause" line at the center of the shabad. Sahsaa is doubt, the restless "what if?" that keeps nagging. Dookh is sorrow. Both are ga-i-aa, gone.
What cleared them was letting go. A-or upaav sagal ti-aag chhoday — I dropped all the other fixes and plans. I came to the saran, the safe shelter, of the Satgur, the True Guru.
Think of trying to untie a knot by pulling harder and harder. It only gets tighter. Sometimes the thing that helps most is to stop.
Have you ever felt better only after you stopped trying so hard to fix something?
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