Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
We arrive with quiet ease and we leave with quiet ease. We rise out of the mind, and back into the mind we settle. Turned toward the teaching, you are free -- never trapped. Sitting with the teaching, the Name sets you loose.
We come from awareness, and we go back into it, gently.
Sehjay aavai sehjay jaa-ay — with calm ease we come, and with calm ease we go. Man tay upjai man maahi samaa-ay — we rise from man, the mind, and settle back into it. Here the mind is often read as awareness itself, not just a body made of stuff. The whole coming and going is easy and effortless.
Then comes what makes the difference: which way we face. Gurmukh mukto banDh na paa-ay — a gurmukh, one who faces the Guru's teaching, is free and not tied up. Sabad beechaar chhutai har naa-ay — thinking deeply on the Shabad, the Word, a person is set loose through the Name.
It is like a sunflower. It is the same flower all day long. What changes everything is that it turns to face the sun.
What does it feel like to be "facing the right way" inside yourself?
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