Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
How can the coming and going — the endless cycle — be stopped? And how can the meeting with the One happen?
The pain of birth and death is heavy, and doubt and duality gnaw at us constantly.
The final Mehl 1 Ashtapadee of the raag opens with the two questions every seeker eventually asks in one breath: how does the wheel stop, and how does the meeting happen? They are one question — the coming-and-going is the not-yet-meeting. And the second line names the engine of the wheel with precision: sahsaa do-ee — gnawing doubt and duality, the constant suspicion of twoness. The cycle is not powered from outside; it runs on the fuel of feeling separate.
What would stop turning in you if you were certain you were not alone?
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