Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
On the eleventh day, if you let your whole heart run in one direction — toward the One — something settles for good.
The restless turning of a searching, wandering life comes to rest; you're no longer tossed from one thing to the next.
Your whole being becomes cool and clear and clean, like fresh water. The One you were told was so far away turns out to be near — closer than close, right here.
Day eleven, aykaadasee (“eleventh”) — traditionally ekadashi, a fasting day. Kabir redirects it inward: ayk dis dhaavai — run in the one direction (toward the One). ta-o jonee sankat bahur na aavai — then the jonee sankat (the distress of wandering, of being tossed birth-to-birth) does not return: rendered per the project’s reincarnation-softening as the ending of a restless, searching loop — the felt sense of no longer being tossed from thing to thing — rather than a doctrine of rebirth. seetal nirmal bha-i-aa sareeraa — the being becomes seetal (cool) and nirmal (pure). door bataavat paa-i-aa neeraa — the One “said to be far” is found neeraa — near. The keynote of the whole thitee: nearness, not distance.
Have you ever searched everywhere for something that was close by the whole time?
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