ਤਿਲੰਗ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥
tilang mehlaa 5.
Tilang, Fifth Mehl:
ਮੀਰਾਂ ਦਾਨਾਂ ਦਿਲ ਸੋਚ ॥
meeraaN daanaaN dil soch.
Think of the Lord in your mind, O wise one.
ਮੁਹਬਤੇ ਮਨਿ ਤਨਿ ਬਸੈ ਸਚੁ ਸਾਹ ਬੰਦੀ ਮੋਚ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
muhabtay man tan basai sach saah bandee moch. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Enshrine love for the True Lord in your mind and body; He is the Liberator from bondage. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold the One in your mind, wise one.
Plant love for the true One in your body and mind — it is the One who frees us from every bondage.
The One is the Liberator from bondage — so remembrance isn't a chore but the loosening of whatever chains you.
The short shabad's Pause line addresses "the wise one" and gives the single instruction: hold the One in mind, plant its love "in your mind and body." And it names the One by what it does — "the Liberator from bondage." All the raag's warnings about the traps of greed and pride, and all its memento-mori, resolve into this: the One is the one who unties what binds us. Remembrance is not a chore but the loosening of chains.
A Question to Sit With
What feels like 'bondage' in your life? What would it mean to bring it to the One who unties?
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