Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Hold the One close in your mind, the way you'd hold something precious.
Its Name works like medicine — even like an axe that chops through the sicknesses of anger and pride.
Todee is a healing raag, and this shabad makes the metaphor explicit: the Name is aukhad, medicine. But then a second, tougher image: it is "like an axe, which destroys the diseases caused by anger and egotism." Some inner tangles are soft and dissolve gently; others — the deep roots of krodh (anger) and ahankaar (ego) — need a decisive cut. Guru Arjan isn't afraid to say that turning toward the One can be forceful medicine, clearing what has grown thick and stubborn inside us.
Is there an angry or proud habit in you that would take a real, clean cut to change? What might that look like?
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