Raag Sorath
Commentary

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

Made whole, you see the One everywhere; cloudy thinking clears, and the heart's wishes ripen in good company.

The Arc

Pauri 0: the teaching makes one whole, and the One is seen brimming everywhere; the heart offers itself. Rahau (Pauri 1): with the teaching held in the heart, not even the tiniest obstacle stops the way. Pauri 2: among the good-hearted, muddled and unkind thinking clears, washed as in a sacred pool. Pauri 3: sing daily and remember together, and the wished-for fruit ripens. Pauri 4: the teaching is full of bliss, and holding the Name one lives in unbroken gladness, for the One keeps to His loving nature.

Key Vocabulary

  • prabh rav rahi-aa bharpooree: the One brims everywhere
  • bighan na laagai til kaa: not a sesame-seed of obstruction
  • durmat kho-ay: cloudy, harmful thinking cleared
  • man baanchhat fal: the wished-for fruit
  • birad rakhaa-i-aa: the One keeps to His inborn nature

Themes and Cross-Connections

Durmat clearing in good company is pictured like sediment settling out of water. Birad returns as the ground of reliable grace -- the One is dependable because loving is simply what He is.

For Raag Sorath

Sorath's calm suits a shabad about a mind growing clear and unhurried.

Translation Notes

Durmat ('evil-mindedness' in Sant Singh Khalsa) is rendered as 'muddled, unkind thinking' -- an inner cloudiness to clear, not a crime, per the project's reading of ego as a condition to heal.

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