Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O my eyes, the One placed Light in you. Look at nothing but the One.
Look at nothing but the One. The One alone is worth seeing.
This whole world you see is the One's own form. Wherever you look, only the One's form is seen — in the trees, the sky, the faces around you.
By the Guru's grace I understand, and when I look, I see only the One. There is no one but the One.
Nanak says: these eyes were blind, but meeting the True Guru, they came to see everything.
Ay naytarahu mayriho har tum meh jot Dharee — "O my eyes, the Lord placed His Light in you; see none other than the Lord." The eyes receive the same theology as the body: their light IS His Light (the optics is ancient — sight as inner light meeting outer light — and Gurbani presses it non-dually: the seer, the seeing, and the seen share one jot). The instruction follows from the physics: har bin avar na daykhhu ko-ee — see nothing but the One, because ayhu vis sansaar tum daykh-day ayhu har kaa roop hai — this world you see is the very form of the One. (Vis is usually read as "whole"; some hear in it vis, poison. Read that way, even the world in its bitterness and danger is His form — the non-dual claim surviving its hardest case, as verse 10 folded Maya herself into the One's design.)
The confession: gur parsaadee bujhi-aa jaa vaykhaa har ik hai — by grace I understood, and when I look, I see: the One alone is; there is no other. And the diagnosis-turned-testimony that closes: ayhi naytar anDh say — these eyes WERE blind — satgur mili-ai dib darisat ho-ee — meeting the True Guru, divine sight (dib drisht: the classical term for celestial vision) opened. Functional eyes, spiritually blind: the bani's most compact statement of what awakening changes. Not the objects seen, but the recognition in the seeing — verse 7's ointment of wisdom applied at last.
Pick anything you can see right now — can you find one trace of the One in it?
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