"However far you have drifted, you can be brought home again."
The Arc
It opens in the peace of mannai - trusting whatever the flow of existence brings - and the honour that settles on the humble. The rahaao lifts the good heart to the highest place and locates the One everywhere: water, land, sky. The middle verses widen the welcome to its fullest - the farthest-strayed are reunited and untouched by fear, and doubt and clinging fall away in the sanctuary. It closes on inner freedom: those who meet the teaching stand beholden to none.
Key Vocabulary
rang raatay - dyed in the colour of love
jal thal mahee-al - water, land, and sky
kot apraaDhee - countless who have strayed
janam janam kaa bichhurhi-aa - separated across lifetimes
nikaanay - free of obligation, beholden to none
Themes and Cross-Connections
The universality of the welcome and the Reuniter who brings the long-separated home. The closing nikaanay - inner freedom from neediness - is a quiet counterweight to the whole culture of obligation.
For Raag Soohee
Soohee's warmth here becomes the warmth of belonging: no one too far gone, no one turned away.
Translation Notes
kot apraaDhee (countless sinners) is rendered as those who have strayed, with the reunion foregrounded rather than the wrongdoing.
"However far you have drifted, you can be brought home again."
The Arc
It opens in the peace of mannai - trusting whatever the flow of existence brings - and the honour that settles on the humble. The rahaao lifts the good heart to the highest place and locates the One everywhere: water, land, sky. The middle verses widen the welcome to its fullest - the farthest-strayed are reunited and untouched by fear, and doubt and clinging fall away in the sanctuary. It closes on inner freedom: those who meet the teaching stand beholden to none.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The universality of the welcome and the Reuniter who brings the long-separated home. The closing nikaanay - inner freedom from neediness - is a quiet counterweight to the whole culture of obligation.
For Raag Soohee
Soohee's warmth here becomes the warmth of belonging: no one too far gone, no one turned away.
Translation Notes
kot apraaDhee (countless sinners) is rendered as those who have strayed, with the reunion foregrounded rather than the wrongdoing.
Last updated: 2026-07-08