Taste the Real Thing and Union Becomes Your Resting State
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The one who drinks the nectar, Nanak says, lets go of doubts and wanderings.
Easily and naturally he stays blended with the One, and gains the deathless state.
The ending shows what all this leads to.
Api-o peevai — whoever drinks the api-o, the sweet nectar. That person lets go of doubts and wandering. Sehjay sehjay mil rahai — easily, naturally, they stay joined with the One. Sehjay speaks of calm ease, like breathing.
Once the taste is there and love has melted into love, union is no longer hard work. It becomes where you rest. Think of riding a bike. At first it takes all your effort. Later you just ride.
The one who couldn't taste learns to savor. The wanderer comes home. Metal melts into metal. And the result is amraa pad — a place of belonging that never dies.
What good, once truly tasted, would make the wandering and doubting simply fall away on their own?
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