Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Come and meet me, beloved Life of the whole world. Be kind to me, and set your living Name down inside my heart to stay. Through the teacher's wisdom, that Name has turned sweet — it has become the thing my mind loves. And now my whole mind is soaked through with it, drenched and glad, the way dry earth is glad in the rain.
The shabad closes by returning to the opening cry — mai aae milhu, "come and meet me" — but the seeker is no longer merely hungry; she is nearly fed, asking for the final meeting. The plea daiaa man dhaare asks the divine to place the Naam in the heart and let it stay (dhaare — to enshrine, to hold). The seeker cannot install it herself; she asks for it to be set there by grace.
The crucial phrase is gurmat naam meethaa — "through the Guru's teaching, the Name became sweet." This names the whole mechanism: it is not raw willpower that makes the divine delightful, but gurmat, the Guru's instruction, the turning of the face toward the light (becoming gurmukh). Sweetness is the fruit of right orientation, not of effort. What was bitter medicine in another shabad is here simply sweet, because the seeker has been taught how to taste it.
And the shabad ends on its keynote word: naam man bheejai — the mind is bheejai, drenched. This is the same soaking promised in the Rahao's darshan. The arc is complete: hunger (P0) → first sweet taste (P1) → the warning that this only comes by grace and company (P2) → the mind finally drenched through (P3). Signed jan Naanak, the one light of the lineage speaking through Guru Ram Das, the saturated heart is the destination of the entire longing.
The mind here is described as "drenched," soaked through with what it loves. What is something that has soaked all the way into you — that you carry everywhere now?
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