Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O Beloved Lord, I meditate on You continually.
I obtain the fruits of my mind's desires.
All my affairs are arranged — and the hunger of my mind is appeased.
Pee-aa pee-aa laag-aa man meer-aa — my beloved (pee-aa — husband, dear one, beloved) is in my mind (man meer-aa — Lord of my mind, beloved of my heart); the mind is absorbed in continuous meditation (laag-aa — attached, absorbed, clinging). The intimacy of Guru Arjan's devotion: the Lord as pee-aa, the beloved. Not the cosmic Lord of thunder and command but the sweet beloved at the center of the heart's attention.
Man kee maang-u pooree ho-ee — the desire (maang-u) of the mind is made complete (pooree ho-ee). The Punjabi word maang also means the parting of the hair — the line where vermillion (sindoor) is applied to signal the married woman's status. The beloved's mark. "The parting of the mind is filled" — both the desire is satisfied and the mark of belonging is complete.
Sarab kaam-u poor-aa ho-aa, bhukhaa mann-u tripp-aa — all affairs (sarab kaam-u — all works, all matters) are completed (poor-aa ho-aa); the hungry mind (bhukhaa mann-u) is satisfied (tripp-aa — filled, satiated). The mind that was hungry — the spiritual hunger that no worldly thing could satisfy (as Shabad 125 showed: neither empire nor health nor virtue fills it) — is filled. Tripp-aa: the specific satisfaction of a hunger that has been genuinely answered.
What is the hunger of your mind — the deep underlying want that remains even when surface desires are satisfied? What has ever genuinely satisfied it?
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