Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The world spins through three moods, and the One lives in a fourth, still place beyond them.
The One has turned coming and going into something small, a single bite easily swallowed, nothing to fear.
One clear Light is the life of everything, and the Guru lets me hear a music that never stops playing underneath it all.
The three moods are the three gunas, the moving qualities of the world; the fourth state (chautha ghar, the turiya) is the still ground beyond them. In kaal bikaal kee-ay ik garasaa, death and birth become a single mouthful, small and nothing to fear. Anhad sabad is the unstruck melody, the music that plays under everything.
When your moods change, what stays the same underneath?
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