ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਜਾਗੇ ਸੇ ਉਬਰੇ ਭਾਈ ਭਵਜਲੁ ਪਾਰਿ ਉਤਾਰਿ ॥
gurmukh jaagay say ubray bhaa-ee bhavjal paar utaar.
Those Gurmukhs who remain awake are saved, O Siblings of Destiny; they cross over the terrifying world-ocean.
ਜਗ ਮਹਿ ਲਾਹਾ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਹੈ ਭਾਈ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਰਖਿਆ ਉਰ ਧਾਰਿ ॥੩॥
jag meh laahaa har naam hai bhaa-ee hirdai rakhi-aa ur Dhaar. ||3||
In this world, the Name of the Lord is the true profit, O Siblings of Destiny; keep it enshrined within your heart. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who stay awake make it safely across the vast, stormy sea of life.
In all this world, the one real treasure to carry is the Name — so keep it tucked close in your heart.
Stay awake, and you cross the stormy sea safely — the one treasure to carry is the Name.
Bhavjal, the “world-ocean,” is softened from “terrifying” to a vast, stormy sea you can nonetheless cross. Jaagay — staying awake — picks right up from the sleep image of the last pauri: wakefulness is what carries you over. And laahaa, the true “profit,” is the Name — the one gain worth keeping when everything else washes away.
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