Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Think of a baby who needs nothing but milk, the little rainbird who drinks only the falling raindrop, the fish who cannot live a moment out of water.
That is how much I need the One. Not sometimes, not partly — the way a fish needs water, all the time, to simply be alive.
I need the One the way a fish needs water, to be alive at all.
Baarik ka-o jaisay kheer baalhaa: as milk is dear to the baarik, the baby. Chaatrik mukh jaisay jalDharaa: as the falling raindrop is dear to the chaatrik, the rainbird, which drinks only rain as it falls. Machhulee ka-o jaisay neer baalhaa: as water is dear to the fish.
The pictures grow stronger here. They move from liking something to needing it to live. Think of a goldfish in its bowl. It needs that water every second. The One is like that: the very water of my life.
What in your life is like water is to a fish — something you can't do without?
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