I have looked in so many ways, but there is no other like the Lord.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The teacher planted the Word within me; I reached the highest state. My sense of two-ness dissolved, and now I am at peace.
Nanak says: I easily crossed the frightening ocean, finding the treasure of the Name.
The resolution names what actually changes: duality dissolves. "My sense of duality has been dispelled, and now I am at peace." Duality (dubidhaa) is the felt sense of separation — me versus the world, me versus the One, me versus others — and it is the root of the raag's whole ache. When the teacher "implants the Word" and that two-ness dissolves, what remains is peace, because the gap that generated all the longing is gone. And the crossing of the "terrifying ocean" becomes easy (sahaj) — not a heroic struggle but a natural passage, once the false separation quiets. The vast, unreachable One of these shabads turns out to be reachable in exactly one way: by the dissolving of the sense that it was ever separate from you.
What is the feeling of being 'separate' from everything, and what might it be like for that feeling to melt away?
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