"Wandering and roaming all around, I have endured great pain, but now, I have come to the door of the Saint."
The Arc
Life lived as an absorbing dream, forgetting one must leave (rahau); the precise portrait of craving — greed's reflexive leap (v.1); exhaustion bringing the seeker to the saint's door, ending in merger (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
supanai / dream — life's absorbing unreality (see The Beggar Who Dreams).
lobh / greed — the reflexive chase, named as one of the Panch Vikaar.
milaae liaa / blended into itself — union as merger (see "Of the Same Color").
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dream-of-life links to Gauree's beggar-king and Sukhmani's play (khayl). Exhausted-arrival echoes B00C3024. Merger-ending links to the union theology running through the raag (3021, 3059).
For Raag Devgandhaari
Opens Guru Arjan's "third set" region with a wake-up shabad, but keeps the raag's warmth: even the painful wandering is redeemed as the road to the saint's door.
"Wandering and roaming all around, I have endured great pain, but now, I have come to the door of the Saint."
The Arc
Life lived as an absorbing dream, forgetting one must leave (rahau); the precise portrait of craving — greed's reflexive leap (v.1); exhaustion bringing the seeker to the saint's door, ending in merger (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The dream-of-life links to Gauree's beggar-king and Sukhmani's play (khayl). Exhausted-arrival echoes B00C3024. Merger-ending links to the union theology running through the raag (3021, 3059).
For Raag Devgandhaari
Opens Guru Arjan's "third set" region with a wake-up shabad, but keeps the raag's warmth: even the painful wandering is redeemed as the road to the saint's door.