Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Once you have truly tasted the sweetness of the One inside you, you enjoy that love. It comes easily and naturally, without straining.
Blessed, blessed, blessed are people like that! How lucky the world is that they showed up in it at all.
Taste the One's sweetness inside, and love flows without straining; such a person's very arrival blesses the whole world.
A glowing Shalok. Aatam ras jih jaani-aa — the one who has come to know aatam ras, the sweet taste of the One within. It is known directly, not just believed. Har rang sehjay maan — then that person enjoys the One's love sehjay, in sahaj. Sahaj is a natural, easy calm, the opposite of forcing.
This is where the earlier letters have been heading: not technique, not straining, but settled, easy delight. Think of how a good friendship feels. You don't work at enjoying it. You just do.
Dhan Dhan Dhan — blessed, blessed, blessed. Saying it three times is Guru Arjan's joy spilling over. The last words turn outward: aa-ay tay parvaan, their very coming into the world is blessed. Such people don't only help themselves. Their presence makes the whole world luckier. It gently answers the ache of "why am I here?" Some lives are a gift to everyone around them.
Whose simply being in your life feels like a gift to everyone around them, including you?
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