The mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea.
The Arc
Praise for the Giver of peace and the supreme state it brings; hold lightly what you cannot keep and hold the Name close; the teaching is the one true Giver of the Name, filling the deepest hunger; the Word pierces the heart and the one turned toward it speaks the unspeakable; the wandering settles as the mind melts into the One and ego dissolves; only the One dwells within, and the sweet Name comes to the hearts meant to receive it.
Key Vocabulary
sukh-daataa — the Giver of peace, pointing straight to the One.
koorh kutamb — clinging attachments; loosened, not loved ones rejected.
akath kahaanee — the unspoken story; speaking what cannot be spoken.
man hee tay man mili-aa — the mind merging into the Mind, stream into sea.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-into-Mind image rhymes with the tradition's recurring wave-and-ocean and stream-and-sea pictures of union. Speaking the unspoken (akath) marks the limit of language before the One.
For Raag Malaar
The longing heart arriving home: the stream that has found the sea it was always flowing toward.
Translation Notes
koorh kutamb (false family) is rendered as loosening the grip of clinging, not rejecting loved ones; remember that you will have to leave is rendered gently as holding lightly what cannot be kept.
The mind flows into the One like a stream into the sea.
The Arc
Praise for the Giver of peace and the supreme state it brings; hold lightly what you cannot keep and hold the Name close; the teaching is the one true Giver of the Name, filling the deepest hunger; the Word pierces the heart and the one turned toward it speaks the unspeakable; the wandering settles as the mind melts into the One and ego dissolves; only the One dwells within, and the sweet Name comes to the hearts meant to receive it.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The mind-into-Mind image rhymes with the tradition's recurring wave-and-ocean and stream-and-sea pictures of union. Speaking the unspoken (akath) marks the limit of language before the One.
For Raag Malaar
The longing heart arriving home: the stream that has found the sea it was always flowing toward.
Translation Notes
koorh kutamb (false family) is rendered as loosening the grip of clinging, not rejecting loved ones; remember that you will have to leave is rendered gently as holding lightly what cannot be kept.