Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is the stillness that turns you inward and the pull that sends you out into the world — both.
The One helps you understand and is the very thing understood. The One is the Guru and the Word itself.
Nanak says: the One speaks it all and makes it heard.
The One is everything at once: the stillness and the rushing.
The word aapay means "the One Himself," and it comes back line after line, like a drumbeat. Guru Amar Das, the third Guru, is speaking at full strength here. Liv is inward stillness, the mind resting on the One. Dhaat is the outward running, the mind chasing after the world. Both are the One. The satgur, the Guru, is the One, and so is the sabad, the Word.
Think of the ocean. The calm deep water and the crashing waves are the same sea. There is no outside to the One, so nothing could ever stand apart from it.
Where do you notice the same source behind two things that seem like opposites?
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