Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
But some never sense the Beloved's Presence right beside them — doubt and the second-love lead them astray.
How can the forsaken brides meet Him? Their life's night passes in pain.
The Beloved is right there in the room. The eyes are just looking somewhere else.
The sad bride's problem is not that the Beloved is gone. It is that she does not notice He is near. Hadoor means right here, close at hand. He is right here, and she does not see Him.
What blocks her is inside. Bharam means doubt. Doojai means the "second love," loving other things more than the One. They stand between her eyes and what fills the room. Think of sitting next to your best friend while staring at a screen the whole evening.
The verse says her "night passes in pain." Rain vihaa-ay, the night passes, is a gentle way of saying a whole lifetime. A life is like one night. It can be spent crying next to a Beloved who was never noticed.
What good thing is already present in your life that you keep living as if it were missing?
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