Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I've settled the Maker right inside my heart — and in doing so I've found what life was actually for.
And here's the secret for the soul: if your Beloved is truly dear to you, the bond between you never breaks. It lasts forever.
This stanza speaks of arrival and fulfillment. I have enshrined the Creator within my mind; I have obtained the fruits of life's rewards. To enshrine the One within is to give it the central, honored place in the heart — not a visitor but the resident of the inner shrine. And the result is phal, the fruit, the harvest — the sense that life has actually yielded what it was for. So many lives reach their end uncertain whether they amounted to anything; the soul that has enshrined the One within knows it has gathered the one fruit that matters.
Then the stanza turns, briefly and beautifully, to the soul-bride imagery that is the heartbeat of Raag Maajh: If your Husband Lord is pleasing to your mind, then your married life shall be eternal. The soul is the bride, the One is the Beloved Husband, and the suhaag — the married, united state — is the soul's union with the One. And here is the secret of a union that never ends: it rests on the Beloved being pleasing to your mind, genuinely dear to you. A bond held together only by obligation can break; a bond held by real love does not. If the One is truly your heart's delight — not a duty you perform but a Beloved you cherish — then the union with it is eternal, beyond the reach of anything that ends.
This quietly answers a fear that haunts all longing: what if I lose what I love? The answer is that this particular union, founded on the Beloved being dear, is the one bond that cannot be lost — because nothing outside can take away a love that lives within.
What's the difference, in your own life, between a bond you keep out of duty and one you keep out of love?
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