Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Offer your most sincere prayers to the True Guru, so that He may unite you with your Best Friend.
Meeting your Best Friend, you shall find peace. The Messenger of Death shall take poison and die.
I dwell deep within the Name. The Name has come to dwell within my mind.
'The Messenger of Death shall take poison and die' — one of the most dramatic phrases in Guru Nanak's Siree Raag. The reversal: the Messenger of Death, who comes to take everyone, is itself taken — jam mar jaaie — when the one it comes for dwells in the Name. What threatened becomes ineffective; the threatening agent is destroyed by its own approach.
The Best Friend (mit peaaree) encountered through the True Guru: the divine as best friend appears here in Guru Nanak as it does prominently in Guru Ram Das. The teacher-of-the-divine-as-friend runs across all the Gurus.
What in your life, when you are genuinely connected to what matters most, seems to lose its power over you? What does that connection do to the things that usually frighten or disturb you?
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