Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My Beloved's love is sweet to me; it is my companion and my support.
Without the One, I cannot live in this world even for a moment — that is how great my hunger and thirst are.
Love for the One is a friend that stays, and the thirst for it runs deep.
This is the pause line, the rahaa-o, the center of the shabad. Pir bhaavai paraym sakhaa-ee — the Beloved's love is sweet. It is my sakhaa-ee, my companion and my support.
Tis bin gharhee nahee jag jeevaa — without it, I cannot bear even one moment in this world. Aisee pi-aas tisaa-ee — that is how deep my hunger and thirst are. This ache is viraha, the missing that comes with being apart. It is not something wrong with us. It works like a compass: the very pull that points the heart home. In Raag Malaar it is the rainbird's thirst for rain.
What is something you miss so much that missing it tells you how much you love it?
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