Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The dear One is true, and His Name is true. By the Guru's grace, He unites a rare person with Himself. Those who merge through the Guru's **shabad** are *never separated again* — they melt, easily and naturally (**sahaj**), into the True One, and stay there.
This verse promises a joining with the One that never breaks again.
Raag Maajh is a raag, a musical mood, full of the ache of being apart from the Beloved. This verse answers that ache. Gur sabad mileh say vichhurheh naahee — those who meet the One through the Guru's Word are never separated again. Vichhurheh means to be pulled apart, the very pain this raag sings about. Guru Amar Das says there is a joining that ends that pain for good. Not a hello followed by another goodbye, but a joining that stays.
Why does this joining last when so much in life does not? Because of how it happens and what it joins. It happens through the Word, and it joins the soul to the sach, the True One who never changes. Things that were stuck together from the outside can come apart again. But this is not sticking two things together. It is the soul melting back into the One it was always part of. Think of a drop of rain falling into the ocean. You cannot take that drop back out, because it has become the ocean. There is no separate thing left to pull away.
And it happens sehjay — easily and naturally. Guru Amar Das never makes joining sound like a fight. The soul does not force its way in. It slips in, the way a stream slips into the sea it was always flowing toward. The verse also stays humble: gur parsaadee kisai milaa-ee — by the Guru's grace, the One joins some to Himself. It is a gift, not a prize for being clever. So the verse offers the deepest comfort a song of longing could want. The ache of being apart can be healed for good. Not by holding on tighter, but by melting, easily and by grace, into the One who was never really apart from us.
What's the difference between things that are joined "from outside" (and can come apart) and becoming so much a part of something that you simply *are* it?
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