Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
How rare are the ones who understand this secret.
The old scriptures keep speaking of the three strands of nature.
But the one who merges into the knowledge of the One — beyond all things and within them too —
serves the True Guru and reaches the highest state.
Only a few people understand this secret. The One is beyond everything, and also inside everything.
The Vedas, the old Hindu scriptures, talk again and again about "three branches." These are the trai gun, the three strands of nature: restless energy (rajas), dullness (tamas), and calm goodness (sattva). Everything in the world is woven from them.
Guru Nanak points past all three to the One. The One is nirgun, beyond all things, and sargun, present in all things, at the same time. Think of a song's composer. The composer is not inside the speaker, yet the composer's heart is in every note.
To merge into that knowing, by serving the True Guru, is the highest place, beyond the three strands.
Can something be completely beyond you and completely close to you at the same time?
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