ਸਾਰਗ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥
saarag mehlaa 5.
Saarang, Fifth Mehl:
ਮਾਈ ਰੀ ਮਾਤੀ ਚਰਣ ਸਮੂਹ ॥
maa-ee ree maatee charan samooh.
O mother, I am totally intoxicated with the Lord's Feet.
ਏਕਸੁ ਬਿਨੁ ਹਉ ਆਨ ਨ ਜਾਨਉ ਦੁਤੀਆ ਭਾਉ ਸਭ ਲੂਹ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
aykas bin ha-o aan na jaan-o dutee-aa bhaa-o sabh looh. ||1|| rahaa-o.
I know of none other than the Lord. I have totally burnt off my sense of duality. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Mother, I am lost in love for the One's feet.
I know no one but the One. The feeling of being split in two has burned away completely.
When the heart loves the One wholly, the old feeling of being split simply burns away.
maatee charan means intoxicated with the Feet: a joyful, wholehearted absorption. dutee-aa bhaa-o is the love of a second, duality — the divided heart that keeps hedging its bets. To looh, to burn it off, is to let that inner split dissolve so the heart is whole and single. This is haumai, the illusion of separation, thinning out — the wave remembering it was always ocean.
A Question to Sit With
What does it feel like to give your whole heart to one thing, instead of splitting it a dozen ways?
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