Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Dear One, You Yourself hand us the understanding.
I give myself to You again and again; I am devoted, always, to Your Name.
Through the deep song I let the old grasping self fall away, and through the deep song I am brought fully alive — the deep song is where freedom is. Through it, heart and mind grow clear, and the One comes to live in me. The teacher is the giver of that song; a mind dyed in it rests forever in the One.
The rahaao: tum aapay deh bujhaa-ee — "You Yourself give the understanding" — even insight is a gift, not a feat. The powerful phrase is ham sabad mu-ay sabad maar jeevaalay — "I died in the deep song, and through it I am made alive." This is the great Sikh paradox of jeevan-mukti: dying-while-living — the grasping ego let go so fully that you are more alive than before. The project frames this carefully: not literal death, but the falling-away of the small separate self, which is liberation (mukat) right here in this life. Clean, joyful, and free of any morbidity.
What is something you had to let go of that actually made you feel freer?
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