In the second stanza, Guru Arjan says,
Come, O beloved friends! Come, O feminine beings! Sing the joyful songs! In the bliss of this union, the feminine beings, the seekers, and the beloved friends come together and sing joyful songs in excitement and celebration. The physical aspect of this is very much there on the wedding or pre-wedding days as preparations are being made. In
this union with IkOankar (One Universal Integrative Force, 1Force, the One), the songs we sing are true and eternal, about enticing or praising the Divine Groom. The eternal songs are the ones that are pleasing to the Divine. In the worldly ceremony, our songs are ethnically and culturally rooted. The eternal songs transcend time and culture. If we sing
these joyful songs, we will become endearing to the One, beloved by the One. These songs are blissful in all four ages, at all times, forever.
The Guru says that the Divine has come to the Divine’s own home. These hearts of ours have
always been the Divine’s home. The One has beautifully sat at the heart and has made the heart beautiful just by virtue of the One’s presence. That is the attitude of the seeker — that the heart is the Divine’s home, not ours, and that it is not that the One has really gone anywhere; it is just that we do not always feel the presence of the One within us. We do not always experience the One within us. Once the presence has been felt, the Wisdom has set the seeker’s affairs in order. Everything is resolved, and life becomes fruitful.
In this state of connection and relationship with IkOankar and the Wisdom, the seeker’s eyes are lined with kohl of the supreme essence of wisdom. Our perceptions change! We are able to see the One in all realms — here and above and below, in the past and present and future. We are able to see the form of the One in all realms. This is not just wisdom or knowledge; it is also the greatest ‘flavor’! It gives us the shades of experience we need, the experience of IkOankar’s all-pervasiveness in many forms. This experience creates a kind of excitement, and this kind of adorning, just like
literal physical adorning on the day of the worldly wedding ceremony, creates an excitement around the meeting, around the union. The seeker asks the beloved friends to sing the joyful song with love so that it brings the flavor of this experience, excitement, and bliss. The seeker rejoices with the feminine beings, and the experience of the One in the heart-home is celebrated. We all have the potential to experience this kind of bliss, this kind of excitement, this kind of celebration. Will we sing the joyful songs? Will our heart-homes become beautiful? Will we adorn ourselves with the kohl of wisdom?
