Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind has been dyed in the love of the oneness. Dyed a deep, permanent crimson. Truth and generosity are my white clothes — clean and clear.
The blackness of past wrongs fades when I wear the blue of the Name. And the meditation on this love — this becomes the best perfume.
Let the love of the oneness be what colors everything about you.
This pauri uses the metaphor of dyeing cloth — a vivid image in Guru Nanak's time, when professional dyers (rangrez) used permanent natural dyes. The colors correspond to inner states: deep crimson (love), white (truth and charity), blue (the Name's protection), fragrance (meditation).
The connection here is with the shabad tradition of rang — color/love. To be "dyed in the Lord's color" is a Sufi and Bhakti image for total absorption in the divine.
Is there something you love so deeply that it has colored how you see everything else? What is it?
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