Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Give up your selfhood, and so find your Beloved — what other clever trick could work?
When the Beloved looks on the bride with His grace, that day is a landmark: she gains every treasure. The bride her Beloved loves is the true bride, Nanak says — the queen of all. She is soaked in His love, glad and carefree, absorbed in it day and night. She is beautiful, radiant, and truly wise.
The close states it flatly: "Give up your selfhood, and so obtain your Husband Lord; what other clever tricks are of any use?" The whole path is the surrender of the separate, self-important self. And the reward is total: the day grace glances on her is "historic," and she becomes "the queen of all" — beautiful, radiant, wise, carefree, absorbed in love. Note the transformation: the "foolish bride" of the opening becomes "truly wise" — not by getting cleverer, but by giving up the cleverness that stood in the way.
What might open up if you set down the 'clever, self-managing you' for a while?
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