Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When the person they love most walks through the door, someone's face lights up with joy.
In the same way, a servant of the One comes alive by keeping the Name in mind.
Loving the One feels like your face lighting up when someone you love walks in.
This is the first of three pictures of love from home life. The verse uses the joy of a wife when she sees her husband. The key word is bigsai, to blossom. The face lights up and the whole person comes alive.
Ti-o har jan jeevai naam chitaaree — in the same way, the One's servant lives by keeping the Name in mind. Guru Arjan teaches by pointing at loves we already know. That same aliveness, turned toward the One, is what devotion feels like. A big idea becomes warm and easy to recognize.
Whose arrival makes your heart lift the moment you see them?
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