ਆਸਾ ਘਰੁ ੮ ਕਾਫੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫
aasaa ghar 8 kaafee mehlaa 5
Aasaa, Eighth House, Kaafee, Fifth Mehl:
ੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥
ik-oNkaar satgur parsaad.
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
ਮੈ ਬੰਦਾ ਬੈ ਖਰੀਦੁ ਸਚੁ ਸਾਹਿਬੁ ਮੇਰਾ ॥
mai bandaa bai khareed sach saahib mayraa.
I am Your purchased slave, O True Lord Master.
ਜੀਉ ਪਿੰਡੁ ਸਭੁ ਤਿਸ ਦਾ ਸਭੁ ਕਿਛੁ ਹੈ ਤੇਰਾ ॥੧॥
jee-o pind sabh tis daa sabh kichh hai tayraa. ||1||
My soul and body, and all of this, everything is Yours. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I am Your purchased slave, O True Master.
My soul, my body, and all of this — everything is Yours.
To belong wholly to the One — owning nothing yourself — is the deepest freedom.
Total belonging: "I am Your purchased slave." Not merely a servant who could leave, but one wholly owned — and gladly. "My soul and body, and all of this, everything is Yours": the soul claims nothing as its own, which is the deepest freedom (cf. Shabad 162, belong to Him).
A Question to Sit With
What might be freeing about no longer calling anything 'mine'?
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