by Guru Ram Das – Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ang 773
One Spirit Beyond
Moves within the Creation –
Coordinating
Consolidating
Continually
Creating.
This understanding
Shall come to you,
As a sweet blessing
As a gift,
Through the Sound of Wisdom
That guides you
To Truth.
Coming under the perfect protection
Of the Living Wisdom
That guides me to Truth,
All my defects and vices
Have been sold,
And You adorn me
With virtues.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
Meditating on
The continual creativity of Divinity,
And Your Spirit within me,
I constantly constantly speak
In the frequency of that
Divine Guiding Wisdom.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
The frequency of the Divine Guiding Wisdom
Is always sweet.
Be attached to that sweetness.
It destroys the defects of the mind.
It destroys defects in action.
The disease of ego goes.
Fear runs away.
And the state of balanced equipoise,
Of flowing ease,
Mingles within my being.
My body has become a bed
For the Sound Current that cuts the ego.
Taking me from my Inner Darkness
To Light.
It is so luxuriously comfortable –
The essence of wisdom.
It brings me
Total pleasure.
Night and day,
I constantly enjoy peace
Intermixing in my being.
Naanak,
Union was pre-ordained
From the beginning of time. (1)
With love,
The Father of the bride
Comes,
Bringing gifts
Of Truth and deep contentment
To arrange His daughter’s
Engagement.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
Meeting with the saintly people,
The families sing
In the frequency of the Divine Guiding Wisdom.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
Singing in the frequency
Of the Divine Guiding Wisdom,
One comes into the most exalted state.
Meeting with those who,
In their purity,
Have recognized their essential Union
With the Divine,
One becomes beautiful
To behold.
Anger and false identity
Flee from the body.
Hypocrisy and doubt
Are destroyed.
The pain of ego departs.
Peace comes in.
And the body becomes healthy,
Free of all sickness and pain.
Through the sweet gift
Of the Divine Teacher
We recognize
The Transcendent Master,
Oh Naanak,
Who is a storehouse of virtue. (2)
Those who follow
Their own thoughts
Are separated from Love
By such a great distance.
Burning in their own desires,
They do not obtain the Palace.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
Within them, is the shell
Of the false self,
Steeped in deception,
Where the life is
Disconnected
From the soul’s reality.
Buying deception.
Taking in deception.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
Earning a hypocritical existence
They suffer so intensely.
Without the Divine Sound of Wisdom
That leads to the Ultimate Reality,
They never find the path.
Scattered.
Dispersed.
A fool on the destructive road
Of doubt and illusion,
They are pulled one way,
Then pulled another,
And their lives are completely ruined.
By Your own Kindness,
Transcendent One who gives to all,
The Sound of Wisdom
That guides us to Truth
Brings Your perfect protection,
As It intermingles
Within us.
After so many lifetimes of being separated
From Love
Your slave
Finally meets with You.
Naanak,
Then life becomes filled with ease
And blessed with profound
Good fortune. (3)
According to the Divine calculation,
It is time for Love
To come.
Abundance, blessings and unrestrained joy
Fill the heart.
Darling One,
Who creates the balance and dance
Between the sun and the moon.
The learned ones and the teachers
Have come forward.
They sit and study
The time of the Husband’s arrival.
Studying the time
Of the Husband’s arrival,
The mind plays in tune
With the Divine frequency of the Spirit.
And that Song grows,
When she hears
That her best friend and Lover
Has come home.
The elders of virtue and wisdom
Sit in council,
And give their blessing
That this Perfect Marriage
Be performed.
In alignment with the essence
Of wisdom,
She receives her Husband Spouse –
The Perfect Protector
Whose Light cannot be
Chased and caught
Whose vastness
Is far beyond the reach
Of her senses.
He is always new
This Beloved Friend of her childhood.
Naanak,
When the kindness and compassion of the Divine
Comes in
These Lovers intermingle their beings.
And those who were once separate
Shall never separate
Again. (4)
Poetically interpreted: May 9, 2007
Copyright: Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa
