Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
All nine treasures — every kind of richness there is. All eighteen supernatural powers. Everything. All of it rests in the Lord's palm.
Nanak is devoted and dedicated, forever a sacrifice to that vastness. Its expanse has no limit. No boundary.
The "nine treasures" and "eighteen supernatural powers" are traditional Indian categories for everything of value — material, spiritual, psychic, creative. Guru Arjan says all of it is already held in the hand of the oneness. You are not searching for something that might not exist or might be elsewhere. Everything is already there.
The closing is a surrender — not defeat, but release. "I am yours" is the natural response to recognising the scale of what holds you. And then the statement that ends it: no limit, no boundary. The expanse cannot be reached. It has no edge.
If you knew that everything you truly needed was already held safely somewhere and would come to you when it was time, how would you live differently?
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