Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I would give anything — everything I am — for the people who quiet their ego and come home to the One.
When they follow the teacher's way, the One settles right inside their heart. And then they sip the sweetness of the divine (**har ras** — the taste of the One) as naturally and easily as breathing.
This is the Rahao — the "pause," the refrain that holds the heart of the whole composition. Everything else in the song orbits this couplet. The opening cry ha-o vaaree jee-o vaaree — "I am a sacrifice, my soul is a sacrifice" — is the language of total devotion, the speaker offering themselves up for a certain kind of person: those who have done haumai maar, killed the ego, and so have merged with the One.
The second line is the song's quiet thesis. How does the merging happen? Gur sayvaa tay — through serving the Guru, through humble alignment with the teaching — the Lord comes to dwell in the mind. And the result is har ras sahj pee-aavania: they are given to drink the essence of the One, and they drink it sahaj — in natural, effortless ease.
Two words to hold onto, because they govern the whole shabad. Har ras is the taste of the divine — not knowledge about it but the flavor of it on the tongue of the soul. The entire song is built on the difference between reading the menu and eating the meal. And sahaj is the natural poise of a soul that has stopped forcing things — the drinking is not strained or achieved, it simply flows, the way water finds its level. Notice too the verb is passive: they are made to drink. Even the tasting is received, not seized.
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