Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O friend, I have found the peace I was searching for.
My longed-for Beloved has come home, and now congratulations are pouring in.
Great joy welled up when my Beloved, forever fresh in beauty, showed me mercy.
By great fortune I found the One; the teacher united me with it through the company of the good.
All my hopes and longings are fulfilled; my Beloved has hugged me close.
Nanak prays: I have found the peace I sought, meeting the teacher.
The Chhant resolves in reunion, and the imagery is a homecoming and a wedding: "My Husband Lord has come home, and congratulations are pouring in." After all the thirst and the ache of unworthiness, the Beloved comes home — and the whole community rejoices (the badhaaee, the congratulations of a wedding). The most tender line: "my Beloved has hugged me close in His embrace." All the longing of the whole poem is answered not with a distant acknowledgment but with an embrace. And note how it happened: "the Guru united me through the Saadh Sangat" — the reunion came through the teacher and the good company. The peace "I sought" is found. This is Jaitsree's emotional summit: the soul-bride's long thirst ending in the Beloved's homecoming and embrace.
What would it feel like to have something you longed for so deeply finally 'come home' to you — and to be welcomed with a warm embrace?
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