Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The soul can feel young and unknowing, sure it has nothing to offer, while the Beloved seems too vast to reach. But the Beloved does the reaching. The One who gathers you in is also the One who forgives — the One who lives inside every single heart.
Through love, through warmth, through devotion, you are found; the true teacher lets you understand this.
Then bliss stays, day and night, and your attention rests, at ease, on the One.
Naturally, gently, the soul finds its Beloved — and receives every treasure there is.
This closing pauri answers the anxiety of the whole chhant. The soul calls itself i-aanee, bholee, nigunee-aa — young, innocent, "without virtues" — but this is not self-condemnation; it is empty-handedness, the honest recognition that you cannot earn your way to the Beloved. And the answer is grace: aapay mayl milee-ai... aapay bakhsanhaaraa — He Himself unites, He Himself forgives. The Beloved is ghat ghat rahi-aa samaa-ee, present in every heart, so the vast distance was never real. Sehjay — naturally, without strain — the union comes. The nau nidh (nine treasures) is the fullness that arrives when grasping stops: everything, once striving ends. This is the resolution the raag has been reaching toward from Pauri 0.
Has someone ever loved you not because you earned it, but just because that's who they are?
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