Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One shows up in endless colors and shapes, and yet — under all of it — stays perfectly simple and whole, just One.
Think of the sea: the water and the waves look like two things, but every wave is only the water moving. The One is both.
The One shows up in endless shapes, yet stays one and whole.
Anik rang nirgun ik rangaa means many colors, yet one single color. Nirgun means without any form or quality you could point to. So the One has countless forms and no form at all, both at the same time. The Guru holds these together without any fight between them.
Aapay jal aap hee tarangaa means the One is the water, and the One is the waves. Picture a wave at the beach. It rises with its own shape for a moment. But it never stops being the ocean.
The Guru uses this same picture in other places too. It shows that each of us, like a wave, is never truly apart from the whole.
A wave rises and falls but never stops being ocean. What does that say about you and everything else?
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