Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have one wish: join me to the One who lasts — the Beloved I actually love. Not something that fades, but the One woven through every age, whose word runs through all the worlds.
This Beloved stays close to every heart that turns toward Him with love. As our hopes are, so our lives take shape, and the One who fills everything brings them to be.
A heart joined to the One is never left alone and never cast aside — never dressed in sorrow. That Beloved is the same, steady and true, age after age. That is the One I love.
baabaa mai var deh — O father, give me to the Lord. The word var means both bridegroom and, really, the deepest belonging. The old line raand na mailai vaysay literally says such a bride is never a widow in dirty clothes — imagery of social shame we deliberately soften to its true meaning: a heart joined to the One is never abandoned, never left in sorrow. jaisee aasaa taisee mansaa — as your hope, so your longing, so your becoming: what you reach for shapes you. This pauri is the hopeful answer to the withered feeling just before it.
What is something you want that will still matter to you years from now, not just today?
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