Sikhism·Aasaa Kee Vaar·Aasaa Kee Vaar, Pauri 1
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The Creative Power Has No Edge You Could Reach

ਬਲਿਹਾਰੀ ਕੁਦਰਤਿ ਵਸਿਆ ॥
balihaaree kudrat vasi-aa.
I am a sacrifice to Your almighty creative power which is pervading everywhere.
ਤੇਰਾ ਅੰਤੁ ਨ ਜਾਈ ਲਖਿਆ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
tayraa ant na jaa-ee lakhi-aa. ||1|| rahaa-o.
Your limits cannot be known. ||1||Pause||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

I stand in awe of Your creative power, alive in every corner of everything.

No one could ever find where it ends.

The creative power that fills everything has no edge you could ever reach — the only fitting response is awe.
The deeper layer

This short Pause line (the refrain to hold) is pure wonder at qudrat — the One's creative power running through everything, everywhere. I am a sacrifice to it — an outpouring of awe at the sheer, boundless creativity that makes and fills the whole world. And its limits cannot be known — you can't get to the edge of it, because there is no edge. It's the heartbeat under the surrounding verses: however sharp the critique of the world's follies, underneath it all runs this endless, wonder-full power, and the fitting response is not analysis but awe.

A Question to Sit With

What in the world fills you with awe at how endlessly creative it all is?

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