Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Among all things, there is the Light. You are that Light.
By its light, all things shine.
Through the Guru's teaching, that Light shows.
What is pleasing to the oneness is the real ceremony of light.
This one says the same Light shines inside everyone, including you.
Sabh meh jot jot hai so-ay — in everyone there is a light, and that Light is You. The aartee started with the sky. Now it turns inward. The light is not only up there, and not only in the ceremony. It is in everything, and it is in you.
That is the path of the whole aartee. First look up at the sky. Then look inside and find the same light.
Gur saakhee jot pargat ho-ay — through the Guru's teaching, the Light shows itself. The Guru does not hand you a light you never had. The Guru helps you see the one already there.
It is like opening the curtains in the morning. The sun was shining all along. Now you can see it.
Has there ever been a moment when you suddenly saw something as beautiful that you had always taken for granted — a tree, a person, a sound? What opened that seeing?
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