Sikhism·Raag Aasaa·Shabad 275
Verse 8 of 9

One Real Taste Ends a Thousand Arguments' Doubt

ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਫਲੁ ਜਿਨੀ ਚਾਖਿਆ ਸਚਿ ਰਹੇ ਅਘਾਈ ॥
amrit fal jinee chaakhi-aa sach rahay aghaa-ee.
Those who taste the ambrosial fruit remain satisfied with Truth.
ਤਿੰਨਾ ਭਰਮੁ ਨ ਭੇਦੁ ਹੈ ਹਰਿ ਰਸਨ ਰਸਾਈ ॥੭॥
tinnaa bharam na bhayd hai har rasan rasaa-ee. ||7||
They have no doubt or sense of separation - their tongues taste the divine taste. ||7||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Those who have tasted the Amrit fruit remain satisfied in the Truth.

They have no doubt and no sense of separation — their tongues are steeped in the divine taste.

One real taste ends the doubts that a thousand arguments could not.
The deeper layer

This one says one real taste ends the doubt that a thousand arguments could not.

After the tree comes the eating. Those who have truly tasted the Amrit fruit stay satisfied in Truth. Two things end for them for good. One is bharam, doubt. The other is bhayd, the feeling of being apart and different from the One.

They are not pushed down. They are ended, the way hunger is simply gone after a good meal. No one argues their way out of doubt. They taste their way out.

This is the divine taste, as this raag, this musical section of the Guru Granth Sahib, has taught before. Words circle forever, as the first line of the hymn admitted. Think of trying to explain a mango to someone who has never eaten one. One bite settles what a thousand descriptions could not.

A Question to Sit With

What do you know by taste — by direct experience — that no one could argue you out of?

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