When I erased my own ego (selfhood), the veil that stood between us vanished. Now that veiled Beloved is no longer hidden, because none remains except Him.
This couplet captures the heart of Sufi mysticism: the only true barrier between the seeker and the Divine is the ego, or 'khudi'. The poet gently reveals that the veil keeping the Beloved hidden wasn't cast by the Divine, but woven by our own sense of self-importance. Once this ego dissolves, the illusion of separateness vanishes entirely, leaving nothing in all of existence except the one true Beloved.
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