Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Before anything at all, the One brought itself into being and gave itself its Name.
Then it made this whole world — and sits right inside it, watching over everything with delight.
The first Pauree (the ballad's main verse) tells the story of beginnings: He Himself created Himself; He Himself assumed His Name. Before there was a world, there was the One, self-existing, needing nothing to make it. Secondly, He fashioned the creation — and here is the loveliest part: seated within the creation, He beholds it with delight. The Maker didn't build the world and walk away; the One is inside it, watching it with joy — like an artist who can't stop looking happily at what they've made. You live inside something its Creator is still delighting in.
How might it feel to know you live inside something its Maker still looks at with joy?
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