Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When someone is full of the nectar, their *mouth* always speaks sweet, true words.
Their *eyes* look out and see the sweetness everywhere they turn.
Day and night they keep telling the beautiful story of the One. They speak it aloud so others can hear it too. The sweetness inside them spills out.
This verse shows how the sweetness inside a person comes out through their mouth, their eyes and their words to others.
It moves through the body like a picture drawn from top to bottom. First the mouth: "amrit bolai sadaa mukh vainee" — they always speak sweet words. Then the eyes: "amrit vaykhai parkhai sadaa nainee" — they see that sweetness everywhere they look. The second line goes deepest. The world hasn't changed. Their seeing has. An earlier song in this raag describes someone who saw the One in earth and water. What fills your heart colors what your eyes notice.
You can test this yourself. Put on sunglasses with a blue tint, and the whole street looks blue. A grumpy, grabbing heart sees a world of rivals and threats. A heart full of the sweet Name sees the same world full of the One. The eyes report back the color of the heart behind them. So to change what you see, you don't rearrange the world. You change what fills you.
Then the sweetness spills over. "Avraa aakh sunaavni-aa" — they speak it aloud so others can hear. Real fullness can't stay private. It isn't showing off. It's what a full cup does when you keep pouring. This is how sat sangat, good company, works: one full heart sweetens the air around it, and others drink from what spills. Real joy is like a lovely smell from the kitchen. You can't keep it in one room.
When you're in a really good mood, how does the exact same world look different than when you're grumpy? What does that tell you?
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