Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
That love is the fire that warms me and the cool balm that soothes me. It is my dearest affection and my deepest longing, both at once. My whole mind knows it simply as peace.
Ohee bhaathee ohee pochaa — "it is the furnace, it is the cooling plaster." Guru Arjan holds two opposites together: the One is both the warming fire and the cooling salve, both what you long for and what satisfies the longing. This is the shabad's quiet paradox — that the Source is fullness itself, containing every need and its answer. Man oho sukh jaato — the mind comes to know it as peace, not just feel it in passing.
Can something be both exciting and calming to you at the same time? What?
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