Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My pain has faded and my worry has walked away — ever since I stepped inside the shelter of the One, my true King.
And what my heart most deeply wanted, I found there — by singing what is wonderful about the One.
A two-line Shalok of pure relief. Dukh binsay sahsaa gaio — "pain gone, dread departed" — names the emotional result first, then its source: saran gahee, "I grasped the shelter." Man chinday fal — "the fruit the mind longed for" — is not a promise of getting every wish granted; it is the deeper hunger of the heart being met, the settledness that no object could give. Placed between the great full-moon Pauri and the caste-leveling Pauri to come, this small verse is the hinge of the whole batch's emotional arc: sorrow released, the heart's real want answered, through shelter and song.
What is something your heart truly wants that no toy or prize could ever give you?
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