Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is somehow the giver and the receiver, the teacher and the student, all at once.
The One watches the whole show and delights in it, moving everything the way it's meant to move.
Sometimes life feels like a clear path, sometimes like a trackless wild — and the One is in both.
It's all one great, fair unfolding, and we get to sing along with it.
Here begins the Vaar's most distinctive thread: the aapay ("He Himself") litany. Over the coming Paurees the One is named as both sides of everything — master and servant, the one who beholds and the one who rejoices. Aap upaae... aapay veykhai — the One makes the play and watches it. Even the puzzling line "the Lord places some on the Path and leads others into the wilderness" is not cruelty but the mystery of a single source behind all experience, smooth roads and hard ones alike. For a child this is wonder rather than doctrine: the One is not far off running things from outside — the One is inside everything that happens, playing every part.
If the same goodness were hidden inside both the easy days and the hard ones, what might that mean?
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