Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My great luck came, and the teacher brought me to you at last. And then — the surprise of my life — I found the One who never dies right *inside* my own home, inside my own heart. Now I will serve you always, and I will never let even a single instant of separation come between us again. I am yours, completely.
This is the resolution — the meeting the whole shabad has ached toward. Bhaag hoaa gur sant milaaiaa — "by good fortune (bhaag), the Guru-saint brought [me to the Beloved]." The reunion comes, and it comes as grace, not as the reward of all that longing. But the truly stunning turn is where the Beloved is found: prabh abhinaasee ghar meh paaiaa — "I found the immortal One within my own home."
This is the great reversal at the heart of the composition. All this time the seeker cried for a beloved who seemed far away, across distance and time, in another des (land). And the Guru's gift is to reveal that the One was never elsewhere — the immortal (abhinaasee) presence was ghar meh, inside the home of the self, the whole time. The thirst that drove her across the world is quenched by turning inward. The chaatrik's raindrop falls within. This is the deepest teaching of the project's lens: there is no separation to cross — only a recognition to wake into.
And the response to finding it is the vow of never-again-separation: sev karee pal chasaa na vichhurhaa — "I will serve, and never be apart even for a pal, a chasaa (the tiniest units of time)." Remember P4, where one moment of separation became a dark age? Here that is healed forever. The one who could not bear a single instant apart now promises she will never be apart again. Signed jan Naanak daas tumaare — "servant Nanak is your slave" — the lover, having found the Beloved within, belongs to it wholly.
The seeker searched everywhere, only to find what she wanted was inside her the whole time. Has anything like that ever happened to you?
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