When Understanding Lights Up, the Heart Turns Upright
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Wednesday: on this day, understanding lights up inside you, clear and bright.
The One comes to live in the lotus of your heart — that soft, open place blooming right in the center of you.
Meeting a true teacher, you learn to look at pleasure and pain the same steady way, unshaken by either. And the heart that was closed and drooping turns upward and opens — like a flower turning to face the light.
When understanding lights up inside you, your heart opens like a flower turning to the sun.
Budhvaar means Wednesday. Kabir plays on its sound, because budh means understanding. Budhvaar budh karai pargaas — on Wednesday, budh, understanding, is pargaas, lit up.
Hirdai kamal meh har kaa baas — the One comes to live in the hirdai kamal, the lotus of the heart. A lotus is a flower that blooms clean and bright, even out of muddy water.
Gur mil do-oo ayk sam dharai — meeting the Guru, you hold do-oo, both pleasure and pain, as ayk sam, one and the same. This is a lovely picture of sahaj, a calm, natural steadiness. You stay unshaken by praise or by blame. Think of a good goalkeeper who stays calm whether the team is winning or losing.
Uradh pank lai soodhaa karai — the uradh pank, the upside-down heart-lotus, is turned soodhaa, upright. The drooping, closed heart opens and faces the light.
When did learning to understand something suddenly make you feel more open and calm?
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