Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I gather with awakened hearts, I find myself speaking the words of the One. The stories of that living presence become the thing my mind loves most. The Name is like sweet nectar — the sweetest thing there is — and when I meet the true teacher, I get to drink it down.
Where Pauri 0 was hunger, Pauri 1 is the first taste. In the Sat Sangat the seeker begins to bolee har banee — to speak the sacred Word — and finds the divine's kathaa (story, discourse) has become man bhaanee, the thing the mind delights in. The shift is subtle and important: practice that began as duty has become pleasure. The Naam is now sweet, not merely good for you.
The key word is amrit — the ambrosial nectar, the drink of deathlessness (a-mrit, "non-death"). The Naam is amrit because tasting it is tasting what does not pass away — sach, the real and permanent — as opposed to the kachaa pleasures of the world that fade. Mil satgur amrit peejai — "meeting the true Guru, I drink the nectar." Notice you cannot brew this nectar yourself; it is drunk in the meeting. The Guru is the cup.
This is the answer to the Rahao's hunger: the starving seeker is given nectar to drink. Hunger becomes taste becomes sweetness. And the sweetness is the proof — when the divine becomes the thing you most enjoy, not the thing you most should do, the love has become real.
Is there something you used to do because you had to, that slowly became something you actually love? How did that change happen?
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