Raag Sorath
Commentary

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

The child is safe and the fever cooled; peace inside is matched by peace all around.

The Arc

Pauri 0: peace, joy, and inner music came at the One’s feet; the Protector kept His child safe and cooled the fever. Rahau (embedded in Pauri 1): saved in the Teacher’s shelter, where devotion is never wasted; peace within and without, and no obstacle remains.

Key Vocabulary

  • raakhanhaarai raakhi-o baarik: the Protector kept the child
  • taap: fever
  • sahj dhun: the natural inner music
  • sayv na birthee: service that is never wasted
  • ghar meh sookh baahar fun sookhaa: peace within and peace without

Themes and Cross-Connections

This shabad opens the fever-recovery thread that runs through the cluster. Matched inner-and-outer peace is offered as the sign that the peace is real.

For Raag Sorath

Sorath’s peace here is relief after a hard night — quiet music, a cooled fever.

Translation Notes

This and several following shabads celebrate a child’s recovery from taap (fever); rendered as gratitude and relief, with no illness-dread.

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