ਅਲਹੁ ਅਲਖੁ ਨ ਜਾਈ ਲਖਿਆ ਗੁਰਿ ਗੁੜੁ ਦੀਨਾ ਮੀਠਾ ॥
alhu alakh na jaa-ee lakhi-aa gur gurh deenaa meethaa.
The Lord Allah is Unseen; He cannot be seen. The Guru has blessed me with this sweet molasses.
ਕਹਿ ਕਬੀਰ ਮੇਰੀ ਸੰਕਾ ਨਾਸੀ ਸਰਬ ਨਿਰੰਜਨੁ ਡੀਠਾ ॥੪॥੩॥
kahi kabeer mayree sankaa naasee sarab niranjan deethaa. ||4||3||
Says Kabir, my anxiety and fear have been taken away; I see the Immaculate Lord pervading everywhere. ||4||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Allah is unseen; no eye can see the One. The Guru has given me a sweet taste, like molasses.
Kabir says: my worry and fear are gone. I see the pure One everywhere.
The One can't be seen with your eyes, but once you taste its sweetness, fear melts and you see it everywhere.
The unseen One can be tasted as sweetness, and then fear melts away.
Alakh — the One cannot be seen; it has no outline to fix your eyes on. Yet the Guru gives Kabir something tasteable, gurh meethaa, sweet as molasses — the felt sweetness of grace. Once tasted, sankaa, anxiety and fear, dissolves, and Kabir sees the pure One (niranjan) everywhere. The invisible becomes vivid not to the eye but to the heart.
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