Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Those who have focused their consciousness on the True Guru have rid themselves of the love of duality.
The light of those human beings is immaculate.
They depart after redeeming their lives.
This one says that when you point your heart at the Guru, the "two-ness" inside you falls away, and your light shines clean.
Jin satgur si-o chit laa-i-aa: "Those who have fixed their mind on the True Guru." Chit means your attention, your inner mind.
Tinee doojaa bhaa-o chukaa-i-aa: "they have ended their love of the second." Doojaa bhaa-o means loving a "second thing" instead of the One. It is being pulled two ways.
Notice the order. You don't first get rid of the pull and then find the Guru. Turning to the Guru is what makes the pull fade. It's like a sunflower. It doesn't clean its face first. It just turns to the sun.
Nirmal jot tin paraanee-aa: "the light of those people is spotless." Earlier in this ashtapadee, the light was placed inside the Gurmukh, the one who faces the Guru. Now that light shines out.
O-ay chalay janam savaar jee-o: "they leave having made their life beautiful." Earlier the song spoke of lives wasted. These people used the gift of life well. When they go, they go having made something good of it.
What does it mean to redeem your life — to have used it well, to leave having fulfilled what it was for? What would that look like for you?
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