Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**D** — take a good look: everything you can see with your eyes will one day pass away. Nothing in the visible world stays forever.
So hold in your heart the One that eyes can't see — the One that never passes. Think of a hidden inner door; when the key finally turns in it, that door opens, and you come face to face with the Kind One, the Merciful. Look past what fades, and you find what shines forever.
The letter Dadda (this one a hard “d”). Daykh jo binsanhaaraa — see that whatever is seen is perishable (binsanhaaraa, subject to passing). The instruction: jas adaykh tas raakh bichaaraa — keep the unseen One in your contemplation. Then the beautiful closing image the whole Bavan Akhri keeps circling toward: the dasvai du-aar, the “Tenth Gate” — Gurbani's name for the inner threshold of awakening beyond the body's ordinary openings. When its kunchee (key) is turned, da-i-aal ko darsan — the Blessed Vision of the Merciful One — is beheld. Kabir names the divine here by its kindness (da-i-aal), the gentle face the seeker finally meets within.
What are the things in your life that can't be seen with your eyes but matter the very most to you?
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