Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Love the One the way water loves milk — so much that it will rise up and burn itself first, rather than let the milk scorch.
Love like the bumblebee that can't bear to leave the flower even for a moment. Sing, and your worries lift away.
The first two love-pictures. Water and milk: when you heat milk, the water in it rises to the top and boils away first, protecting the milk from burning — a homely image of a love that would sacrifice itself to protect the beloved. Then the bumblebee and the lotus, so enchanted by the fragrance it won't leave even for a moment. Two kinds of devotion: one that protects at its own cost, one that simply can't bear to be apart. The Chhant is teaching love not by rules but by showing you creatures who do it with their whole being — and adding that where such love is, fear has no place, even where death's road is shown.
What does it look like to love someone enough to protect them, even at a cost to yourself?
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