Raag Sorath
Commentary

Raag Sorath, Du-Padas, Mehl 5 (Guru Arjan)

The Teacher is the physician; the Name is the medicine, and it reaches even the oldest ache.

The Arc

Pauri 0: the One clears long-held pains and revives a parched heart; His vision brings joy as one contemplates the Name. Rahau (Pauri 1): my physician is the Teacher, who places the Name-medicine on my tongue so that even the fear of death loosens. Pauri 2: the all-powerful Maker does all Himself, and lifts up the one who leans on Him — the Name their support.

Key Vocabulary

  • sookaa man sadhaarai: a dry, shriveled mind revived
  • baid / aukhadh: physician / medicine
  • jam kee fandhaa: the noose of death — softened here
  • bidhaatay: the shaper of what comes
  • naam adhaaraa: the Name as the beam one leans on

Themes and Cross-Connections

The healing-Teacher image at its clearest: not a distant judge but a physician. The long-carried pain of janam janam eases; leaning replaces earning.

For Raag Sorath

Sorath’s medicine-note — song and Name named as sukh-daaee, peace-giving — appears here as a literal cure.

Translation Notes

Jam kee fandhaa (“the noose of Death”) softened to “the fear of death loosens its hold” per wellbeing rules; janam janam rendered as “pains carried a long time,” not a reincarnation ledger.

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