Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
All through the months and all through the seasons, the One is forever in bloom, like spring,
making every living being and creature green and alive.
What can I say? I am as small as a little worm.
No one has ever found where You begin or where You end.
With the One it is always spring, and every living thing turns green.
Guru Amar Das opens his set with the raag's central image at full brightness: sad basant, always spring, and jit hariaa sabh jee-a jant, everything made green and alive by the One. Ki-aa ha-o aakhaa kiram jant: "what can I say, I am just a worm." It is the honest smallness of standing before something immeasurable, full of wonder. And no one finds the One's beginning or end, because there is none. Vastness met with awe.
When you stand in front of something huge and beautiful, how do you feel about yourself?
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