Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The happy soul-bride finds her Beloved always — she has let go of her ego and self-conceit.
Night and day she holds fast to Him — and on the bed of Truth, she finds peace.
Nothing was added to the happy bride. A wall was taken away.
Her secret is a subtraction. Haumai aap gavaa-ay means she let go of haumai, her ego, the "me first" voice. Nothing new was given to her. Something was removed. And that removing was the finding, because the ego was the only wall the house ever had. Think of a curtain pulled back from a window, and the sun was there all along.
Her union has a strong, active verb: geh rahee, she holds on tight, night and day. Grace opened the door. But she does not just sit and wait. Love, once given, holds on.
The long ache of being apart, which runs through this raag, ends here. In its place is the steady, every-night peace of the sachee sayj, the bed of Truth, the place of true closeness.
What would you have to let go of to hold on to what matters most?
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