Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
He Himself is the True Guru. He Himself is the Lord. He Himself unites in His Union.
In His Kindness, He unites us with Himself — as we follow the Guru, the True Guru.
Over all the world, He is the Life of the World, O Nanak — like water mingled with water.
The closing pauri contains one of the most beautiful images of union in the entire Guru Granth Sahib: jal mahi jal aa-i milaavai — "like water mingled with water." When water is poured into water, there is no longer any question of which drop is which. The union is complete, total, irreversible.
"He Himself is the Guru, He Himself is the Lord, He Himself unites" — aapai aap milaaee — the divine is doing all three: being the teacher, being the destination, and making the connection between them. The human role is to follow and receive.
This is the resolution of the "standing by the wayside and asking the Way" that opened the shabad: the journey ends in water mingling with water.
What would it feel like to be so completely at home in something — a relationship, a practice, the world — that the sense of being separate from it simply dissolved? Can you imagine that?
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