Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The gifts are as great as the giver. The one who made the day also made the night.
Those who forget their source — they become hollow. Without the Name, they are lost.
The gift matches the giver in scale. Because the oneness is infinite, what it gives is infinite. Day and night — even the alternation of darkness and light, work and rest, is a gift from the same source. Nothing is outside it.
The final line is sharp: those who forget are "wretched outcasts." Guru Nanak does not mean this as a judgment from outside — an angry deity condemning the forgetful. He means it experientially: when you are disconnected from the source of your own life, you feel it. The hollowness is not punishment. It is simply what disconnection feels like.
Have you ever been so caught up in the details of life that you forgot to notice something beautiful? What does that forgetting feel like — and what does noticing feel like?
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