Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is the wise old books and the one who reads them and delights in them.
The One is the person who stays home with a family and the one who wanders off alone — both at once.
The One is all goodness, moving everything, yet somehow standing perfectly free of it all.
Joys and sorrows both come from the same generous hand.
The aapay litany reaches one of its most important claims: the One is "Himself a householder, and Himself a renunciate." In a world that argued endlessly about whether holiness meant leaving society (the renunciate) or staying in it (the householder), the Vaar says the One is both — which quietly blesses the Sikh householder path: you don't have to abandon the world to be holy, because the One is fully present in the home as much as in the forest. "He is all goodness... yet remains detached" — present in everything, trapped by nothing (the lotus again). Even "pleasure and pain" come from "the same generous hand," a line inviting deep trust.
Do you have to go somewhere special to be good, or can you be good right where you are?
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