ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥
dayvganDhaaree mehlaa 5.
Dayv-Gandhaaree, Fifth Mehl:
ਤੇਰਾ ਜਨੁ ਰਾਮ ਰਸਾਇਣਿ ਮਾਤਾ ॥
tayraa jan raam rasaa-in maataa.
Your humble servant, O Lord, is intoxicated with Your sublime essence.
ਪ੍ਰੇਮ ਰਸਾ ਨਿਧਿ ਜਾ ਕਉ ਉਪਜੀ ਛੋਡਿ ਨ ਕਤਹੂ ਜਾਤਾ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
paraym rasaa niDh jaa ka-o upjee chhod na kathoo jaataa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
One who obtains the treasure of the Nectar of Your Love, does not renounce it to go somewhere else. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your servant is drunk on the sweetness of Your being.
Whoever finds the nectar-treasure of Your love does not leave it to go looking elsewhere.
When you've truly tasted the real thing, the wandering stops — nothing else competes, so the searching simply ends.
The Pause line names devotion as a happy intoxication — "intoxicated with Your sublime essence." And it notes the natural fidelity of one who has truly tasted: "does not renounce it to go somewhere else." When you have found the real thing, the wandering stops; nothing else can compete with the taste, so the searching simply ends.
A Question to Sit With
What, once you truly found it, ended your searching for anything better?
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