Raag Todee
Commentary

Raag Todee, Shabad 16, Mehl 5 (Guru Arjan), Third House, Chau-Padas

"That which you consider to be yours, is not yours."

The Arc

A startled wake-up about ownership. "Oh! Oh!" — you grip the glitter as if it's everything, and what you call "yours" was never yours (v.0); the Name is right here the whole time, while you tie your attention to what you must abandon (v.1); you gather what only deepens hunger and never stock the one supply that fills (v.2); the pit of desire-anger-attachment is easy to fall into, and a rare few are lifted out by grace (v.3).

Key Vocabulary

  • moorakh / "fool" — read as an urgent, gentle shake, not an insult from above.
  • amrit naam — the Ambrosial Name; the one supply that ends hunger rather than feeding it.
  • garho / pit — of kaam, krodh, moh (desire, anger, attachment).

Translation Notes

Moorakh is softened per the project's voice rules: rendered as "wake up, friend" — a shake of the shoulder — rather than "you fool." The teaching (misplaced ownership and attention) is kept intact.

Themes and Cross-Connections

"What's yours is not yours" ties to Todee's memento-mori (B00C1536) and to the borrowed-guest theme across Aasaa (B00C739, 763). Craving-that-feeds-itself echoes Aasaa's insufficiency catalogues (B00C736). Falling-into-the-pit-and-lifted-by-grace keeps the humility guardrail.

For Raag Todee

A precise teaching for children about attention and ownership: almost everything we call "mine" is on loan, and grace — not solo willpower — is what lifts us from the common human pit.

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