Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The one who meditates on the Lord crosses over. The Messenger of Death cannot touch them.
O Nanak — the Lord has given me the Support of the Naam. This is the gift of His Grace.
The crossing over: the Messenger's power is gone. The gift that makes it so: the Naam.
The closing pauri completes the arc from the opening: the Messenger of Death is conquered at the start (through meeting the Saints), and now at the close: jam jam nahi aavai — the Messenger of Death comes not, again and again.
"The Lord has given me the Support of the Naam" — Har naam tika — the Naam as the final support, the one thing that holds. The gift of grace: kirpaa nidhaan — the Treasure of Grace gives what nothing else can.
The crossing is complete. The shabad that began with the Messenger of Death conquered through the Saints ends with the Naam given by grace, which produces the same crossing the Saints had modeled.
What gift have you received that you know you couldn't have given yourself — something that came from outside your own capacity? What was it? What has it meant?
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