Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the first and the only — there is no one as great as You, and no one beside You.
Age after age You stay the same: unchanging, never wearing out, the Maker who never ends.
Whatever You wish is what happens; whatever You do, is done. You made this whole universe, and one day You will gather it all back in. So I sing to the Maker, the One who knows everything there is to know.
This one says the Maker of everything never changes, so we can simply sing.
The hymn closes on two big ideas that run all through Gurbani, the Guru's words.
The first is Sat, which means "real" or "true." The One is real in a way nothing else is. Everything else comes and goes. The One stays the same, jug jug, age after age.
The second is Hukam, the One's will, the way everything unfolds. Tudh aapay bhaavai so-ee vartai jee — whatever pleases You is what happens. This is not a bossy ruler giving orders. It is simply how life moves.
Making the world and gathering it back in both happen inside the One. The universe is not a toy wound up and left alone. Think of a potter's hands, shaping the clay and holding it the whole time.
So the hymn ends with a song, not an argument. Nanak simply sings to the Maker, who knows everything.
If everything is held by something that never changes, what would you be able to stop gripping so tightly?
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