ਨਗਰ ਮਹਿ ਆਪਿ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਫੁਨਿ ਆਪਨ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਮੇਰੇ ਕੋ ਸਗਲ ਬਸੇਰਾ ॥
nagar meh aap baahar fun aapan parabh mayray ko sagal basayraa.
You exist within the city, and beyond it as well; O my God, You are everywhere.
ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਰਾਜਨੁ ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਰਾਇਆ ਕਹ ਕਹ ਠਾਕੁਰੁ ਕਹ ਕਹ ਚੇਰਾ ॥੧॥
aapay hee raajan aapay hee raa-i-aa kah kah thaakur kah kah chayraa. ||1||
You Yourself are the King, and You Yourself are the subject. In one place, You are the Lord and Master, and in another place, You are the slave. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are inside the town and outside it too; wherever anyone is, You are already there.
You are the king and You are the ordinary person; in one place the master, in another the helper -- all of it is You.
The same One shines through the powerful and the plain alike.
nagar meh aap, baahar fun aapan -- within the town and beyond it, all the One. aapay raajan aapay raa-i-aa -- both king and subject. High and low are not two different worlds; the same One wears every role.
A Question to Sit With
Have you ever noticed the same goodness in very different kinds of people?
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