Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My mind is full of joy: I have heard that the One is coming!
Sing songs of welcome for the One, my friends. My house has become the One's palace.
Sing songs of welcome for the One every day, my friends, and sorrow and pain will not take hold of you.
Blessed is the day I hold on to the Guru's feet and keep my Beloved in mind.
I have come to know the unstruck music and the Guru's Shabad, and I taste the sweetness of the One's Name.
Nanak says: the One has come to meet me — the Doer, the Cause behind everything.
Man chaa-o bha-i-aa parabh aagam suni-aa — "my mind is filled with delight; I have heard of God's coming." Here is the wedding-song of Anand Sahib. The idiom is entirely bridal: companions (sakhee) summoned to sing mangal (wedding-songs of welcome), the household become the Lord's mansion (garihu mandar bani-aa), the blessed day (din sabhaagay) of attachment to the Guru's feet, and the pir — the Husband-Lord — remembered. The soul-bride tradition that runs through the raags (Siree Raag's bride, Aasaa's adornments) here reaches its festival: the wedding is ON.
The transformation is architectural: garihu (the ordinary house) becomes mandar (mansion, temple) — not by renovation but by arrival. Presence upgrades the premises. And the practical counsel rings domestic: har gaa-o mangal nit sakhee-ay — sing the welcome-songs daily, companions — sog dookh na vi-aapa-ay — and sorrow and affliction do not take hold (vi-aapa-ay: to pervade, infest — grief as an occupying force that singing keeps at the door). This is the bani's praise-over-prayer teaching in ritual form: the defended house is the celebrating house.
The last lines gather the bani's music-theology: anhat banee gur sabad jaanee — the unstruck melody, known through the Word — and the astonishing closing intimacy: parabh aap mili-aa — God HIMSELF has met me — karan kaaran jogo — the Doer, Cause of causes, capable of all. The Cause of causes attends the wedding in person. No emissary. Bliss (anand) was announced at verse 1 as the finding of the Guru; here its face is shown: union.
What would you tidy, decorate, or sing if someone you love completely were arriving today — and what if they already live inside you?
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