Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whatever you give me — that is what I eat. There is no other door. Which door should I go to?
Nanak offers this one prayer: this body and this soul — they are totally yours.
Not mine to manage or protect. Yours. Already. Always.
The closing prayer — ik ardaas (one prayer) — is complete surrender. "There is no other door" (avar na koee darvaajai): not because other options don't exist, but because the speaker has recognized that no other door leads where this one does.
"This body and soul are totally Yours" — this is the culmination of the fish-in-river theme. The fish belongs to the river; it cannot own the river. The recognition of this belonging is itself the prayer.
What would you have to stop trying to control in order to feel truly at peace? Is that something you could actually give up?
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