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.
Pleasing the Guru, I have fallen in love with my kind, dear Beloved.
I have put on all my finest things, and I have let go of every wrong way.
My running mind has become steady and still.
Love for the kind Beloved, found through the Guru, steadies a running mind.
This is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line, the centre of the shabad. It opens a Partaal, a shabad sung to a shifting rhythm. The soul is pictured as a bride putting on her finest things (seengaar) for the Beloved, a picture Gurbani uses often for the heart getting ready to meet the One. Tajio ree sagal bikaar: she has let go of every wrong way. Dhaavto asthir thee-aa: the mind that was running here and there becomes still. Love settles what effort alone could not.
What is something you love so much that being near it makes you calm?
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