Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whatever your Beloved says, accept it, and make it your decoration.
Forget the love of other things, and chew upon this betel leaf.
The shabad says: let accepting the Beloved's word be your jewelry.
Bhartaa kahai so maanee-ai — whatever the Beloved says, accept it. Ayhu seegaar banaa-ay — make that your decoration. A bride usually dresses up in jewels. This bride dresses in glad acceptance of the Hukam, the One's will, the flow of how things are.
A bride also chewed a tambol, a betel leaf, as part of getting ready. Here the betel leaf becomes something inside: doojaa bhaa-o visaaree-ai — forget the love of anything in place of the One. Wearing the One's will becomes her beauty. Another shabad in Raag Aasaa paints the same picture.
Could accepting what comes, rather than fighting it, become a kind of beauty?
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