Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is moving through everything all the time, but quietly, hidden — like the wind you can't see but can feel.
When I turn toward the light as a **gurmukh**, suddenly I *see* Him everywhere. My whole mind lights up with joy, like a cloth soaked through with color.
The moment I let go of my endless wanting, a calm, easy peace welled up on its own. The One settled into my heart.
The One is everywhere, just hidden. Guru Amar Das says iko aap firai parchhannaa — the One Himself moves about, unseen.
Think of the WiFi in your home. You can't see it, but it fills every room. The One is like that: not absent, not far, only unnoticed. This is Ik Onkar — one Creator, present in every leaf, every breath and every face. The problem is never that the One is far away. The problem is that we don't see.
So what helps us see? Gurmukh vaykhaa — "facing the Guru, I see." A gurmukh is someone who turns toward the Guru's light. Nothing out there changes. What changes is which way we face. Then the mind is bhinnaa — soaked through, like cloth dyed deep, or dry earth after monsoon rain. That soaking picture runs all through Raag Maajh.
The last line says how peace arrives: tarisnaa taj sahj sukh paa-i-aa — letting go of craving, I found calm, easy peace. Sahj means a natural, easy balance. You can't force it into being. It is already there underneath. It rises up by itself once the noise of wanting goes quiet. This whole shabad keeps coming back to that. The One is already here. We only have to stop looking somewhere else.
What constant wanting keeps your mind too noisy to notice the quiet peace that might already be there underneath it?
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