Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Deep inside, deep inside me, I am colored through with love of the One.
That love is right here with me, even though no eye can see it — and the perfect teacher helped me see the unseen. The teacher revealed the Name, and all my inner poverty and pain just lifted away. I have reached the highest place there is, melted into the Name.
This shabad opens with an emphatic, repeated phrase — from within my mind, from within my mind — that locates everything where these shabads keep insisting it belongs: inside. From within my mind... I am imbued with the Love of the Lord. The love is not out there to be acquired; it is within, soaked into the soul like dye into cloth.
And then the central paradox of all devotion: the Lord's Love is with me, but it cannot be seen... the Perfect Guru has led me to see the unseen. The One is alakh, invisible to the physical eye — and yet the Guru does the impossible, leading the soul to see the unseen, opening an inner sight that perceives what no outer eye can. This is the Guru's great gift: not new information but new vision, the eye that sees the invisible Presence already within. And the fruit is total: all poverty and pain have departed, and the soul has obtained the supreme status, absorbed in the Naam. The inner poverty — the felt emptiness and lack that drives so much craving — simply departs when the unseen love within is finally seen. You were never poor; you only could not see the treasure. The Guru lights the eye, and the poverty that was only blindness lifts away.
What might already be within you, unseen — and what would it take to be 'led to see the unseen'?
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