Salok Sheikh Farid, Salok 32 — you belong everywhere to the One
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In her in-laws' home and in her parents' home — in the next world and in this one — the bride belongs to her Husband. Her Husband is beyond reach and deeper than anyone can measure.
Nanak says: the happy bride is the one who pleases her Carefree Lord.
The soul belongs to the One everywhere, in this life and in whatever comes next.
It answers the salok just before it, which spoke of a bride with no place in either home. It uses the same old picture of a bride. Pay-ee-ai is her parents' home, which stands for this life. Saahurai is her in-laws' home, which stands for the life after. In both homes she belongs to her Beloved.
That Beloved is kant agamm athaahu — beyond reach and deeper than any ocean. The verse is signed Naanak, so many read it as Guru Nanak finishing Farid's thought. The happy one is the one who pleases the bayparvaah One. Bayparvaah means carefree, needing nothing, never anxious.
Think of a turtle. Wherever it goes, it carries its home on its back. Belonging to the One is like that: it goes with the soul everywhere.
What helps you feel at home even when you are somewhere new or unfamiliar?
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