Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Just as a fish cannot be pulled from the water it lives in, they cannot be pulled from the Name.
Nanak says: like the little rainbird longing for a single raindrop, the saints are comforted the moment they taste the One.
A fish and a rainbird show a love that is as needed as water.
Meenaa is a fish. It is wrapped up in water. Take it out, and it cannot live. The good-hearted are wrapped up in the Name the same way.
Chaatrik is the rainbird. The old stories say it drinks only raindrops as they fall, and waits for them with longing. When a single boond, a drop, arrives, it finds comfort.
Both pictures show a love that isn't optional. It is the very thing life swims in. Being with the One is as natural and needed as water to a fish.
What is something you would find it hard to live without, like a fish out of water?
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