Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Creator made both bitter poison and sweet nectar,
and hung these two fruits on the great tree of the world.
The Creator does everything and makes everything happen,
and feeds each one as the One pleases.
Bitter and sweet both grow on the one tree of the world, and the Creator made them both.
A calm, wide view of how existence is arranged: bikh (bitter/poison) and amrit (sweet/nectar) both come from the Creator, hung like du-ay fal — two fruits — on the sansaar birakh, the world-tree. This is hukam, the flow of how things are: light and hard both belong to the one design. Rather than frighten, it steadies: the mix of bitter and sweet in life is not a mistake but part of the whole tree.
Why do you think life has both hard days and wonderful days?
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