Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O my companions, let us meet and sing the One's wonder together.
As one who faces the teacher, say the Name and gather its profit.
Devotion to the One has been planted in me; it pleases my mind. The Name brings a sincere love.
After the soaring aapay lines — the One as everything — Guru Ram Das comes right back down to the warm, communal, ordinary: "let us meet and sing together." This is characteristic and important. The loftiest non-dual vision does not float off into abstraction; it lands in the simple gladness of friends singing side by side. The vast One that churns the ocean is met in the small circle of companions with the Name on their lips. And devotion "pleases my mind" — it is not a heavy duty but a delight. The infinite and the intimate, once more, held together in a single breath.
Why might the biggest truths be best lived out in small, ordinary, shared moments?
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