Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
He Himself does, and He Himself undoes; He Himself beholds His glorious greatness.
Becoming Gurmukh, one beholds Him too — and only then is His worth appraised.
This one says the same One builds things up and takes them down, and lets us see it.
"Aap karay aapay haray" — the One makes, and the same One unmakes. Kingdoms rise and fall. The tide comes in and goes out. It is one Hand, watching its own greatness.
Earlier in this raag, in the Babar-vani (the songs Guru Nanak sang when Babar's army invaded), the undoing was shown at its most painful. Here the same truth is told in calm weather.
Then comes a quiet wonder. The Gurmukh, a person who faces the Guru, is invited to watch too. They get to see, in a small human way, what the One sees. The line before said no one could measure the One's worth. Now it becomes possible — but only through eyes the One has opened.
It is like looking through a friend's telescope. You could never see those stars alone. You see them because your friend lets you look.
Have you ever seen something end and something begin, and sensed one movement behind both?
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