Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You know my anguish, Lord. No one else knows.
I have no other to go to. You are the One who frees from the bonds of this world.
Known completely, known already — and still the One who frees.
Mainee viaathaa tuhi jaanahi — You know my anguish/distress. Only the divine knows the depth of what is being experienced; no one else reaches that depth. Not even those closest to us fully know.
And yet: avar na jaanaa koee — no other. The One who knows the anguish completely is also the One who frees. The relationship of being fully known and being freed by the One who knows — this is the deepest intimacy Guru Arjan describes.
"Frees from the bonds of this world" — the jam phaahaa (noose of death) and all the world's bindings are released by the One who already knows everything they bind.
Who in your life knows your real anguish — not what you present, but what is actually hard? And does being fully known by them help? What does it feel like?
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