Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Saawan, the rainy month, has come, dear friends; keep your Beloved in your heart.
Nanak says: the brides who gave their love to someone else now weep and waste away with longing.
When the rainy season comes, it is a reminder to turn the heart toward the One.
This salok is by Guru Angad, the second Guru. Saavan aa-i-aa hay sakhee kantai chit karayhu: Saawan, the monsoon month, has come, dear friends; think of your Beloved. The verse uses the soul-bride picture, where each of us is the bride and the One is the Beloved.
The second line speaks of the duhaaganee, the bride who has lost her husband's love. She has given her heart to someone else, and now she weeps and wastes away. In the soul-bride picture, that is a heart that has turned its love to lesser things. It feels the ache of being far from home.
That ache is a pull to come back. Like the smell of dinner drifting from the kitchen and calling you in, the season itself calls the heart home.
What pulls your heart back when it has wandered toward smaller things?
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