Home safe and dressed in honor; look at the wonder the True One has made.
The Arc
Pauri 0: safe and sound, home again, all pains over; the unkind words thrown at one simply came to nothing while the teaching wrapped one in a robe of honor. Rahau (Pauri 1): this is the greatness of the True One — look at the astonishing wonder it has made. Pauri 2: a humble heart speaks only what flows from the One's will, and the Giver of peace has made a perfect creation.
Key Vocabulary
sukh saand ghar aaiaa: home safe and well
poorai gur pahiraaiaa: dressed in robes of honor
acharaj sobh banaaee: astonishing wonder created
bole saahib kai bhaanai: speaking by the Master's will
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad closes the block on a note of awe (wahe) — greatness shown in the sheer wonder of creation — and in words that flow through the humble rather than out of them.
For Raag Sorath
Sorath's grounded joy suits a closing shabad of safe homecoming and wonder.
Translation Notes
The literal reads 'the slanderer's face is blackened with ashes.' The children's text renders this as the unkind words simply coming to nothing — keeping the truth-outshines-untruth meaning without the vengeful image.
Home safe and dressed in honor; look at the wonder the True One has made.
The Arc
Pauri 0: safe and sound, home again, all pains over; the unkind words thrown at one simply came to nothing while the teaching wrapped one in a robe of honor. Rahau (Pauri 1): this is the greatness of the True One — look at the astonishing wonder it has made. Pauri 2: a humble heart speaks only what flows from the One's will, and the Giver of peace has made a perfect creation.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad closes the block on a note of awe (wahe) — greatness shown in the sheer wonder of creation — and in words that flow through the humble rather than out of them.
For Raag Sorath
Sorath's grounded joy suits a closing shabad of safe homecoming and wonder.
Translation Notes
The literal reads 'the slanderer's face is blackened with ashes.' The children's text renders this as the unkind words simply coming to nothing — keeping the truth-outshines-untruth meaning without the vengeful image.