Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In my mind I say the Naam of the First One, the source of all goodness.
The sense that You and I are two has melted away.
The feeling that "You are over there and I am over here" can melt away.
This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line. It is the center of the whole shabad.
Jai Dayv keeps inside him the Name of the First One, gun aad, the source of every good thing. All goodness comes from one spring.
Then comes the heart of it. Dubidhaa means "two-ness," the feeling of being split apart. Here it is the sense that the One is far away and separate from me. And that feeling melts.
Think of frost on a window in the morning. It looks like a wall between you and the garden. Then the sun comes up, the frost melts, and you see there was never really a wall at all.
That is what Ik Oankaar means, "the One Creator in everything." The separation was never the real thing. Only the One was.
When have you felt completely un-separate from everything around you?
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