Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Tell me — what is that time when I will find the One?
Blessed is that moment, and that destiny, when I find the One of the universe.
Holding the One in mind all day and night, my heart's desires are fulfilled.
By great fortune I found the company of the good; I bow and touch their feet.
My mind thirsts for the sight of the One; Nanak is a sacrifice to it.
The Pauree voices the ache of waiting for the blessed moment: "tell me, what is that time when I shall find God?" It is the honest impatience of longing — when? when? — the lover counting the hours until the meeting. And the answer, folded in, is that the waiting is already being answered: "by great good fortune I have found the Saadh Sangat" — the meeting is happening in the good company, even now. The thirst ("my mind thirsts for the Darshan") is not yet fully quenched, but it is being answered, step by step, in the Sangat. The longing and its gradual fulfillment are held together — the when? and the already beginning.
When you're waiting for something you long for, does it help to notice the ways it's already beginning to arrive?
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