Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Come and stay, my Beloved, my Lord of all — be kind, and come live inside my heart.
My deepest wishes have come true; I am caught up in joy just gazing at the perfect teacher. The happy souls who receive the Name are glad day and night; by great good fortune the One is found, and the heart laughs out loud with joy.
This stanza is almost pure joy — the exuberant, overflowing happiness that is Guru Ram Das's special note. It opens with an intimate plea: Dwell, O my Beloved... come to dwell within my mind. The soul invites the Beloved not just to visit but to move in, to take up residence in the heart. And the plea is immediately answered with fulfillment: I have obtained the fruits of my mind's desires... I am transfixed with ecstasy, gazing upon the Perfect Guru. The deepest wishes are met, and the soul is caught — transfixed — in the simple joy of beholding the teacher who brought it home.
And the joy is shared and continuous: the happy soul-brides receive the Lord's Name; night and day, their minds are blissful and happy. The fulfilled souls — the suhaagans, the happy brides — are glad around the clock, not in occasional flashes but as a steady state. The stanza ends with an image rarely so explicit in scripture: the mind laughs with joy. Not merely content, not quietly at peace — laughing. When the One is truly found, the heart does not just settle; it laughs out loud, the way you laugh when something almost too good to be true turns out to be real. This is the exuberant end of the longing of Maajh: the Beloved invited in, the wishes fulfilled, the brides glad day and night, and the heart laughing for joy.
When did you last feel joy so full your heart almost laughed — and what would it mean to seek that in the deepest place?
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