Inner Brightness, and the Separate Self Melts
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
On the twelfth day, it is as if a dozen suns rise at once — an inner brightness floods everything.
Day and night, a music with no beginning and no end quietly plays inside you — the unstruck melody, sounding without any instrument.
Then you behold the loving Source of all three worlds. And here is the wonder of wonders: the small, separate self melts, and you discover you were never apart from the One at all.
Day twelve, baaras (“twelfth”): baarah ugvai soor — twelve suns rise (an image of overwhelming inner illumination). ahinis baajay anhad toor — day and night the anhad (unstruck, un-struck-by-any-instrument) toor (celestial trumpet/melody) plays — the classic image of the divine music heard in deep meditation. daykhi-aa tihoon lok kaa pee-o — one beholds the pee-o (Father, loving Source) of the tihoon lok (three worlds). achraj bha-i-aa jeev tay see-o — “wonder! the jeev (individual soul) has become Siv (the divine)”: read through Ik Onkar not as a person becoming God, but as the small separate self recognizing it was never separate — the wall dissolving.
Have you ever felt so full of wonder that the line between you and the world seemed to disappear?
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