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Tera Kiya Meetha Laagai by Shivpreet Singh
With Rajesh Prasanna on Bansuri

Meetha Meetha (live)

Meetha Meetha

Kavan Bani

New Composition: This morning I released this new track based on Guru Nanak’s Japji Sahib, Pauri 20. 

I have been working on the music for this composition since several years. The idea was to interject the verses with chanting on Satnam. The harmonies are not computer generated as is for many arrangements these days; I took my sweet time and took over 100 takes for the different vocals in this track and layered them for the harmonies.  So I want to especially thank my collaborators who had to wait a long long time before this was completed.  In 2018, my friend and his wife David Baynes and Ana Milena Varona contributed some tracks to help with this. David Baynes (who also did the arrangement of Jo Mange and played the guitar in Jin Prem Kiyo with me) played the guitar and bass for this track. Ana Milena Varona has played several cello tracks to make it sound like a string quartet. Enjoy!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/OgCAebeXC6c
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/.../navai-kai-rang.../1598143240
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15Vo27w6Yia4CFFfw5QC9j 
Blog (which focuses on multiple translations of this pauri from Japji Sahib): https://www.shivpreetsingh.com/.../navai-kai-rang-japji...

Lyrics and Alternative Translation

ਭਰੀਐ ਹਥੁ ਪੈਰੁ ਤਨੁ ਦੇਹ ॥
भरीऐ हथु पैरु तनु देह ॥
Bẖarīai hath pair ṯan ḏeh.
When the hands and the feet and the body are dirty,
ਪਾਣੀ ਧੋਤੈ ਉਤਰਸੁ ਖੇਹ ॥
पाणी धोतै उतरसु खेह ॥
Pāṇī ḏẖoṯai uṯras kẖeh.
water can wash away the dirt.
ਮੂਤ ਪਲੀਤੀ ਕਪੜੁ ਹੋਇ ॥
मूत पलीती कपड़ु होइ ॥
Mūṯ palīṯī kapaṛ hoe.
When the clothes are soiled and stained by urine,
ਦੇ ਸਾਬੂਣੁ ਲਈਐ ਓਹੁ ਧੋਇ ॥
दे साबूणु लईऐ ओहु धोइ ॥
Ḏe sābūṇ la▫ī▫ai oh ḏẖo▫e.
soap can wash them clean.
ਭਰੀਐ ਮਤਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਕੈ ਸੰਗਿ ॥
भरीऐ मति पापा कै संगि ॥
Bẖarīai maṯ pāpā kai sang.
But when the intellect is stained and polluted by sin,
ਓਹੁ ਧੋਪੈ ਨਾਵੈ ਕੈ ਰੰਗਿ ॥
ओहु धोपै नावै कै रंगि ॥
Oh ḏẖopai nāvai kai rang.
it can only be cleansed by the Love of the Name.
ਪੁੰਨੀ ਪਾਪੀ ਆਖਣੁ ਨਾਹਿ ॥
पुंनी पापी आखणु नाहि ॥
Punnī pāpī ākẖaṇ nāhi.
Virtue and vice do not come by mere words;
ਕਰਿ ਕਰਿ ਕਰਣਾ ਲਿਖਿ ਲੈ ਜਾਹੁ ॥
करि करि करणा लिखि लै जाहु ॥
Kar kar karṇā likẖ lai jāhu.
actions repeated, over and over again, are engraved on the soul.
ਆਪੇ ਬੀਜਿ ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਖਾਹੁ ॥
आपे बीजि आपे ही खाहु ॥
Āpe bīj āpe hī kẖāhu.
You shall harvest what you plant.
ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਆਵਹੁ ਜਾਹੁ ॥੨੦॥
नानक हुकमी आवहु जाहु ॥२०॥
Nānak hukmī āvhu jāhu. ||20||
O Nanak, by the Hukam of God's Command, we come and go in reincarnation. ||20||

Navai Kai Rang

Apple Music

So Sukh Mohko Sant Bataavoh - Bhai Apardeep Singh Uk
December 2012 - France Chotey Sahibzadey Shaheedi Smagam & Barsi Sant Baba Thakur Singh Ji Bhindranwaley

So Sukh Mohko Sant Bataavoh - Bhai Apardeep Singh Uk

Kaisi Aarti

Bisar Gayi

Kanhai

Artist : Dilpreet Bhatia
Album : Jap
Label : Meditative Mind Music

1. Ik Onkaar

2. Tu Thakur Tum Peh Ardaas

3. Jehi Vidhi Hoi Naath

4. Aap Sahai Hoa

5. Waheguru Wahe Jio


Tu Thakur Tum Peh Ardaas

Doesn't matter how long
my shut eye meditates
and howsoever long
my open mind contemplates 

How far I rummage
from place to place;
every holy pilgrimage
just goes to waste! 

Or have down deep
many scriptures dug,
but still fail to be
ONE like the lovebug*. 

The plain truth remains
the eternal life of spring
that you wish to attain, Shiv,
only true love can bring

Prem, That's Amore

akaal purakh kee rachhaa hamanai ||
The non-temporal Purusha (All-Pervading Lord) is my Protector.

sarab loh kee rachhiaa hamanai ||
The All-Iron Lord is my Protector.

sarab kaal jee dhee rachhiaa hamanai ||
The All-Destroying Lord is my Protector.

sarab loh jee dhee sadhaa rachhiaa hamanai ||
The All-Iron Lord is ever my Protector.

Album

Akaal Purakh Kee Rachhaa Hamanai - Bibi Satnam Kaur and Bibi Gurpreet Kaur feat. Bhai Gurpreet Singh

Sparking Stars

Featuring Jeremy Marais on Saxophone and Suellen Primost on Cello

So Kyon Visrai

Chamkan Taare

17041 - 15.3 - Raghunaath 

This track was recorded before the youtube version with Rajhesh Vaidhya on the Veena, but it was never released.

Raghunath

Raghunaath (17041-15.3)

Concepts

Aad Sach

Saas Saas Simro Gobind by Shivpreet Singh
Album released in 2016
Saxophone: Jeremy Marais, Cello: Suellen Primost
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2mBNMtBGvqQWZD4o3kpK7q

Charan Kamal (Piano Version)

Ardaas

Saas Saas

Jee Ki Jot

At Preetam Man Mohana

Raag Basant, because it is spring! The lesson from the lotus flower is to love at all odds.  Bhagat Namdev, whose 750th birth anniversary we are celebrating sings, "I will not stop loving you even if people laugh at me. The one who leave their master in need, leave their honor. People love wealth and would even die for it. But the lovers of truth,  love your name and give up their own existence.  Bathing in the Ganges and Godavari is for the people of the world. For me, the service of hari is above all.  I will not stop loving you even if people laugh at me. Teri Bhagat Na Chhodon Bhave Log Hasai." A different version of the video with translation is on YouTube.

Light Kirtan

Rattan Deep Singh