Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are One, and yet You have countless forms.
Which one should I worship? Before which one should I burn incense?
No one has found where You end. How could anyone find it? I call myself the servant of Your servants, O my King.
The One has a single form, and also countless forms. So where should you bow?
Guru Nanak answers with a question: kis pooj charhaava-o day-o Dhoop — which one should I worship, before which one should I burn incense? Think of the sun shining on a thousand puddles after rain. Every puddle shows a sun. But there is only one sun. Bowing to just one puddle would miss it.
This is the Guru's teaching that the Creator is One, worked out in real life. If the One is everywhere, there is no single spot to worship. Every spot already is the One. So the questions gently loosen the habit of pointing worship at one image, in any tradition.
Tayraa ant na paa-i-aa — no one has found where You end. Something with no edges cannot be measured. So we answer the One with love, not with a location.
If the One is in every single thing, does that change how you might treat things around you?
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