Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O friends, my restless, windy mind has finally grown calm and still, and it feels like real peace.
It is as if I have learned the true secret at the heart of every practice. My teacher showed me the little gap where my attention used to leak away and get stolen by distraction. I gently closed those doors, and now a beautiful, unstruck music, a sound with no beginning, quietly rings inside me.
Kabir is saying that his busy, restless mind has finally gone quiet.
This first part is the rahaa-o, the "pause" line, the center of the whole shabad. Man pavnai sukh bani-aa means the mind that blew about like wind has become peaceful.
Kabir borrows words from yoga, the old practice of training body and breath, and uses them kindly. His teacher showed him the moree, a small gap. Through that gap the mirag, a deer, used to sneak in. The deer stands for our restless senses, always wandering off to steal our attention.
Think of doing homework with your phone buzzing beside you. Every ping is the deer slipping in. Kabir closed the darvaajay, the doors where distraction gets in. Then he heard the anhad baajay, the "unstruck" music: a quiet inner sound that no one has to play.
Real stillness is not about where you sit. It happens inside.
What helps your own busy mind settle into stillness, even for a moment?
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