Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O my mind — practice the Naam, the Name of the Lord.
Where the Naam is practiced, suffering, agony, and fear do not cling.
Three things that don't cling to the Naam-practitioner: suffering, agony, fear. The Naam is the repellent.
The rahao names what the Naam repels: dukh agni bhau (suffering, the fire of agony, fear). The Naam is the practice that prevents these from chhaapai (clinging to, adhering to) the practitioner. Not that circumstances become suffering-free, but that suffering, agony, and fear do not cling to the one whose heart is full of the Naam.
This is the practical promise of the Naam as protection: not elimination of circumstances but non-clinging of what those circumstances produce. The protective quality is precisely at the level where suffering hooks in.
Is there something in your life — a practice, a relationship, a habit — that seems to make difficult things slide off rather than stick? What is it, and why do you think it works?
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