Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Night and day I keep the One close. In the end, I trust I will be carried safely over.
And how do I cross? By listening, deeply, again and again, until I find I have already reached the other side.
Keep listening, day after day, and it carries you across.
An-din saahib sayvee-ai means serve the One night and day. Ant chhadaa-ay so-ay — and in the end, the One sets you free. Crossing over, paar utaaraa, is one of Gurbani's oldest pictures. Life is a wide river, and the One is the boat.
Look at how the crossing happens: sun sun, hearing and listening. This is suniai, deep listening. It is more than letting sound reach your ears. It is like listening to a song again and again until you know every word by heart. That kind of attention quietly carries a person over.
What is something you understood only after listening to it many times?
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