Sikhism·Raag Aasaa·Shabad 67
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Love That Truly Soaked In Doesn't Have to Argue

ਜੋ ਮਨਿ ਰਾਤੇ ਹਰਿ ਰੰਗੁ ਲਾਇ ॥
jo man raatay har rang laa-ay.
Those being whose minds are imbued and drenched with the Lord's Love
ਤਿਨ ਕਾ ਜਨਮ ਮਰਣ ਦੁਖੁ ਲਾਥਾ ਤੇ ਹਰਿ ਦਰਗਹ ਮਿਲੇ ਸੁਭਾਇ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
tin kaa janam maran dukh laathaa tay har dargeh milay subhaa-ay. ||1|| rahaa-o.
- their pains of birth and death are taken away. They are automatically ushered into the Court of the Lord. ||1||Pause||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Some minds are soaked and drenched in the One's love.

Their pains of being born and dying are taken away. They are welcomed into the Court without even having to ask.

Love that has truly soaked in doesn't have to argue its way in — it's simply welcomed.
The deeper layer

This is the pause line, the Rahao, the center of the shabad. It says that love which has soaked all the way in is simply welcomed home.

Think of a cloth dropped into dye and left there. It does not just get a little colored. It is drenched through. That is the picture for a mind soaked in the One's love.

Two gifts come to such a person. The "pains of birth and death" are lifted, the fear of coming and going. And they enter the Court, the One's own home, "automatically." No asking, no bargaining, no arguing to be let in.

Why? Because that love has already become what the Court is made of. You never have to knock at the door of your own home.

A Question to Sit With

What is a feeling so deep it changes you without you having to try?

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