Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
**V** — know the One, truly know it — and in that knowing, something wonderful happens: you become one with it. To really know the Oneness is to melt into the Oneness.
When this soul and that One come together, they blend so completely that no one can tell them apart anymore. Like a drop rejoined to the ocean, you cannot say "here is the soul, and there is the One." They are simply, wholly, one.
The letter Wawa/Vaava again (a short couplet). vaahee jaanee-ai vaa jaanay ih ho-ay — know Him, and by knowing, this one becomes Him. This is Kabir at his most nakedly non-dual: knowledge and becoming are not two steps but one — to truly know the Oneness is to be dissolved into it. ih ar oh jab milai — when this (the individual soul) and that (the One) meet, tab milat na jaanai ko-ay — once blended, no one can tell them apart. The whole Bavan Akhri circles this recognition, and it rests directly on the project's reading of Ik Onkar: there is no second, no real separation to overcome — only to see through. The couplet's brevity mirrors its meaning: nothing more needs to be said once the two are known to be one.
Can you imagine being so close to something you love that the line between you and it seems to disappear?
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