Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Whoever trusts the True One with a whole heart comes to see the one Root under everything.
A heart full of that trust finds wisdom's essence opening inside it.
Such a person steps out of fear and lives unafraid - absorbed back into the One they came from.
When something blends with its own, you cannot call it separate anymore. Rare is the discernment that grasps this - but meeting the One, a person becomes one with Him.
When a drop returns to the ocean, it loses only the feeling of being separate.
The key line is simple and deep: basat maahi lay basat gadaa-ee, taa ka-o bhinn na kahnaa jaa-ee — when something blends with its own, you cannot call it separate anymore. Sukhmani has said this before, with water mixing into water. Here it is stated as a plain rule.
The words to underline are "with its own." One way to picture it is a drop of water. When the drop falls back into the ocean, it is not dissolving into something foreign. It is going home. The drop was ocean water before, during and after its short life as a drop. That is Ik Onkar, "there is One," in the simplest picture. So merging costs nothing real. What is given up, separateness, was only a belief about a border.
The fear line tells the story of that discovery: bhai tay nirbha-o ho-ay basaanaa — out of fear, a person comes to live without fear. Nirbha-o means fearless. Fear lives at the border. It needs a wall to defend. Step across, and the weather changes for good, because there is no wall left to guard.
The pauri is honest that this is rare. It takes bibayk, clear understanding: boojhai boojhanhaar bibayk, only the one with real discernment grasps this. But the last line keeps the door open: naaraa-in milay naanak ayk — meeting the Lord, a person becomes one with Him. Meeting does what reasoning alone cannot.
What would you still be afraid of if you truly believed nothing real about you could ever be cut off from everything else?
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