Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
My heart has grown quiet and unhurried, no longer pulled this way and that.
There is only one thing it looks for now: to see the One I love.
A heart grows quiet once it knows what it wants.
In the original, the seeking voice is a woman's: the soul longing for her Beloved. This is the "pause" line, the rahaa-o, the center of the shabad. Biraag means a calm letting-go of other things. It does not come from being cold. It comes from finally knowing what the heart truly wants: darsaar, a sight of the One.
Think of a kid at the airport, waiting for a grandparent to land. The shops and screens don't pull at them. They only watch the arrivals gate.
What would it feel like to want only one thing, calmly and completely?
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