Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When anyone speaks the Name of the One with love,
it is like touching the magic stone that turns iron into gold, and the feeling of "two" goes away.
Remembering the One with love changes you, the way a magic stone turns iron into gold.
This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line, the center of the shabad. Parchai raam ravai ja-o ko-ee: whenever anyone lovingly speaks Raam's Name. Ja-o ko-ee means "whoever," anyone at all: no rank or qualification is asked for. Paaras parsai dubiDhaa na ho-ee: it is like touching the paaras, the philosopher's stone, and dubiDhaa is gone. DubiDhaa is two-ness, the feeling of "me over here, the One far away," close cousin of ego (haumai — the feeling of being a separate self). Iron turning to gold is a favorite Bhagat picture of how love changes a person from the inside out.
When have you felt the gap between yourself and everything else get smaller?
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