A protecting hand makes you new again; grace blesses without weighing your good against your bad.
The Arc
Rahau (Pauri 0, opening): my Teacher has become my protector; His mercy reached out a hand and kept the child safe and whole. Pauri 1: the fever gone, the One kept His servant’s honor; every good thing came from good company. Pauri 2: He set right both this life and the next, never weighing merits against faults; His word is eternal, His hand of blessing laid on the brow.
Key Vocabulary
rakhvaalaa: protector
har govid navaa niro-aa: the child well again — rendered “whole and sound”
saadhsangat tay sabh fal: all fruits from good company
gun avgun na beechaari-aa: faults and merits not weighed
mastak dhaari-aa: the hand of blessing on the forehead
Themes and Cross-Connections
The protecting hand, grace that does not audit, and good company as the source of good.
For Raag Sorath
The guardian-note of Sorath’s Mehl 5.
Translation Notes
Opens on the rahaa-o (Pauri 0); the source names Hargobind — rendered as “the child.” Gun avgun na beechaari-aa foregrounded as grace-not-audit.
A protecting hand makes you new again; grace blesses without weighing your good against your bad.
The Arc
Rahau (Pauri 0, opening): my Teacher has become my protector; His mercy reached out a hand and kept the child safe and whole. Pauri 1: the fever gone, the One kept His servant’s honor; every good thing came from good company. Pauri 2: He set right both this life and the next, never weighing merits against faults; His word is eternal, His hand of blessing laid on the brow.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The protecting hand, grace that does not audit, and good company as the source of good.
For Raag Sorath
The guardian-note of Sorath’s Mehl 5.
Translation Notes
Opens on the rahaa-o (Pauri 0); the source names Hargobind — rendered as “the child.” Gun avgun na beechaari-aa foregrounded as grace-not-audit.