ਬਿਸਮਨ ਬਿਸਮ ਭਏ ਜਉ ਪੇਖਿਓ ਕਹਨੁ ਨ ਜਾਇ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥
bisman bisam bha-ay ja-o paykhi-o kahan na jaa-ay vadi-aa-ee.
I was wonderstruck and astonished, when I looked inside; I cannot even describe its glory and grandeur.
ਮਗਨ ਭਏ ਊਹਾ ਸੰਗਿ ਮਾਤੇ ਓਤਿ ਪੋਤਿ ਲਪਟਾਈ ॥੧॥
magan bha-ay oohaa sang maatay ot pot laptaa-ee. ||1||
I am intoxicated and enraptured with it, and I am wrapped in it, through and through. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When I looked inside, I was so amazed I had no words — nothing I could say could hold how wonderful it was.
I got happily lost in it, soaked right through, woven into it like thread through cloth.
Some good things leave you happily without words.
bisman bisam bhaay — wonderstruck and astonished; ot pot laptaa-ee — woven through like warp and weft. Wonder (vismaad) is the doorway.
A Question to Sit With
When were you so amazed you could not describe it?
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