Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
How could you ever put the One on a scale? To measure something that huge, you would need something just as huge to measure it with.
But there is nothing else that big. There is no second One. So how could anyone ever set a price on it?
Here is a riddle: how do you weigh something that has nothing to compare it with? The word atul means "unweighable," too great for any scale.
Think of a kitchen scale. It works by comparing your flour with a weight you already know. To weigh the One, you would need a second thing just as great. But the verse says plainly, tis tay doojaa naahee ko-ay: there is no other besides the One. So there is nothing to measure the One against.
This is the Sikh idea of Ik, which means One. Oneness is all that is real, with no second thing standing outside it. That is why the verse asks, tis dee keemat kikoo ho-ay: how could anyone ever set the One's value?
What is something so big or so real that no ruler or scale could ever capture it?
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