Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The self-willed are like brides forsaken forever — standing at the Door, crying out.
The taste of the Beloved never came to them; what was written for them, they live out.
Here is the sad side: brides who stand right at the door but never taste the feast.
A manmukh is someone who follows only their own mind, instead of the Guru. The verse pictures such people as lonely brides. Dar kharhee-aa billaahi — they stand at the Door, crying. The saddest detail is how close they are. They are right at the doorway of the feast.
Their distance is not about miles. It is about taste. Pir kaa su-aad na aa-i-o — the flavor of the Beloved never reached them. No one can be argued into loving a flavor. Think of being told a food is delicious. Until you taste it, the words do nothing.
The last words say they live out jo dhur likhi-aa, what was written for them from the start. This is Gurbani's gentle kindness. The crying at the door is not only stubbornness. It is a soul still inside its script. And this whole raag tells us that the One's loving Glance can rewrite any script.
Have you ever been right next to something good and unable to enjoy it? What was in the way?
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