Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My One has poured kindness on this humble servant; separated so long, I am reunited with the One.
Blessed, blessed is the true teacher, who planted the Name in me; servant Nanak would give anything for the teacher.
The word "reunited" carries the deep ache and joy of viraha — the soul "separated for so long" and now brought home. This is the emotional core of Guru Ram Das's Jaitsree: the long separation and the reunion, the sense of a homecoming after distance. And notice where the gratitude lands: on "the True Guru who implanted the Name." The reunion did not happen by the seeker's own striving across the gap; it happened because the teacher planted the Name that drew him home. The whole shabad, which began "I am foolish, make me wise," ends in the wisdom that mattered most — being reunited with what was lost.
Have you ever felt far from something or someone you loved, and then reunited? What did that homecoming feel like?
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