Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
Keep the Liberator, the One who sets us free, close in your heart, all you people of the world.
Without that One, the body is just passing dust — but the One who frees us is my mother and my father together.
Mukand (Mukanday) is a beloved name for the One — the Liberator, the giver of mukti, freedom. Ravidas repeats it like a heartbeat. So-ee mukand hamraa pit maataa — the One is both father and mother, the whole of belonging. For Ravidas, a cobbler-saint the world ranked low, the One as parent is a claim of complete, unearned dignity: whoever else may disown you, the Liberator does not.
What does it feel like to know something loves you and will never let you go?
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