ਕਾ ਕਉ ਦੁਰਾਉ ਕਾ ਸਿਉ ਬਲਬੰਚਾ ਜਹ ਜਹ ਪੇਖਉ ਤਹ ਤਹ ਨੇਰਾ ॥
kaa ka-o duraa-o kaa si-o balbanchaa jah jah paykha-o tah tah nayraa.
From whom should I hide? Whom should I try to deceive? Wherever I look, I see Him near at hand.
ਸਾਧ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਗੁਰੁ ਭੇਟਿਓ ਨਾਨਕ ਮਿਲਿ ਸਾਗਰ ਬੂੰਦ ਨਹੀ ਅਨ ਹੇਰਾ ॥੨॥੧॥੧੧੭॥
saaDh moorat gur bhayti-o naanak mil saagar boond nahee an hayraa. ||2||1||117||
I have met with Guru Nanak, the Embodiment of the Holy Saints. When the drop of water merges into the ocean, it cannot be distinguished as separate again. ||2||1||117||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Who could I ever hide from? Who would I try to fool? Everywhere I look, You are right here beside me.
Nanak says: I met the Guru, the very picture of holiness, and became like a drop slipping into the ocean -- no longer a separate drop, simply one with the whole.
You were never a lonely drop -- you are part of a whole ocean.
kaa ka-o duraa-o -- from whom to hide, when the One is everywhere near (nayraa)? saagar boond -- the drop merging into the ocean, the classic image of the small self dissolving into the One and never again standing apart. Closes at ||117||.
A Question to Sit With
When have you felt part of something much bigger than just yourself?
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