Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
When your heart fills up with love for the One, you settle into an easy, natural peace.
There is a sweet ache that comes with loving deeply. Only the heart that feels it understands it — and only the Beloved knows how to soothe it.
The Ashtapadee opens under the Mangalacharan — the invocation Ik Onkar Satgur Prasaad, "One Creator, by the Guru's grace." A heart in which paraym man vasaa-ay, love has come to dwell, rests in sahj subhaa-ay, natural ease. Then the great image of the whole song: ayhaa vaydan — this love is a kind of ache, a sweet pain, and only the one who feels it knows it; only the Beloved knows its kaaree, its cure. Love and healing are the twin threads here.
Have you ever loved something so much that missing it and enjoying it felt mixed together?
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