Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We each flow back into the very One we came from, like a drop returning to the sea — so drink deep of that sweetness now.
Says Kabir: my mind is full of remembering the One, and my heart rests light and free.
We go home to the One we came from, like a drop returning to the sea.
The ending is quietly beautiful. Jah kee upjee tah rachee — we flow back into the One we came from. Peevat mardan laag — so drink in the One's sweetness, and stay close.
It is not an ending. It is a homecoming. Picture a raindrop falling into the ocean. It does not disappear. It becomes part of the whole sea again. Other shabads use the same picture of a wave and the ocean, for haumai, the me-first feeling, melting away.
Kahi kabeer chit chayti-aa raam simar bairaag. Kabir says his mind is full of remembering the One. Bairaag usually means letting go. Here it means a heart grown light and free, no longer clenched by fear or clinging.
The shabad began with grief. It ends in gentle peace, and in coming home.
Does it feel comforting to imagine that everyone returns to the same place they came from?
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