ਬਲਿ ਬਲਿ ਜਾਉ ਸਿਆਮ ਸੁੰਦਰ ਕਉ ਅਕਥ ਕਥਾ ਜਾ ਕੀ ਬਾਤ ਸੁਨੀ ॥੩॥
bal bal jaa-o si-aam sundar ka-o akath kathaa jaa kee baat sunee. ||3||
I am a sacrifice, a sacrifice to my beauteous Lord; I have heard his Unspoken Speech and Story. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I would give anything for the beautiful One I love.
I have heard the tale that no words can fully tell -- and even hearing a little of it is enough.
Some of the most beautiful things can be felt long before they can be explained.
bal bal jaa-o -- I am a devoted offering. si-aam sundar -- the dark-and-lovely One, an image borrowed from older poetry for pure beauty. akath kathaa -- the untellable telling: the deepest things can be pointed at, listened toward (sunee), but never wrapped up neatly in words.
A Question to Sit With
Have you ever felt something so big that words did not quite fit it?
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