Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your devotees are forever hungry for You.
O Lord — please fulfill my desires.
Grant me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan. Please take me into Your Embrace.
Tere jan sad-aa bhukh-ei tere-ee — Your servants (jan) are always (sad-aa — forever, constantly) hungry (bhukh-ei) for You (tere-ee — for You alone). The paradox of spiritual hunger: the devotee who has received the most — Naam, Shabad, the Guru's Hand on the forehead, the drop-by-drop Nectar — is still hungry. Not because the gifts were insufficient but because the genuine receipt of divine presence intensifies rather than satisfies the longing for more of it. The more you taste the divine, the more you want. Bhukh-ei — always hungry.
Prabh kirpaa kar-eh-u, pooran karo aas-aa — O God (Prabh), please do Your Mercy (kirpaa kar-eh-u); fulfill (pooran karo — make complete, satisfy fully) my hopes (aas-aa — expectations, desires, longings). The prayer: complete what You have begun. The Nectar has come drop by drop; now: pooran karo — make it full, complete, whole.
Dar-san-u de-ho, khar-i mil-ho, Sukh-daataa — grant the Blessed Vision (dar-san-u — darshan, the sacred sight of the divine), meet me and embrace me (khar-i mil-ho — come and meet, embrace), O Giver of Comfort (Sukh-daataa). Darshan — the sacred sight of the divine, or of the Guru, or of the sacred image — is in the Sikh and Hindu devotional tradition a real event with real spiritual effect. To see the divine is to receive grace. The devotee who has received the Nectar now asks for the sight.
What are you most hungry for right now — not food, but the deeper hunger underneath your life? And what would it look like to have that fulfilled?
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