"Utterly infinite, exceedingly great, deep and unfathomable... How can the Enticer of the mind be obtained?"
The Arc
The settled verdict of exhaustive search — nothing equals the One (rahau); the One as beyond reach, unweighable, and the honest question "how is it obtained?" (v.1); the answer — not by search but by the teacher and grace, drinking the essence (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
ooch / highest, beyond reach — the transcendence pole (paired with 3027's immanence).
kiu paaeeai / "how can it be obtained?" — the real question that rules out grasping.
Har Ras / drink the essence — the direct taste, given not seized.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Near-and-far paradox links to Shabad 7 (within/without) and Shabad 35 (among all yet distinct). "How obtained? — by the teacher, by grace" links to Shabad 28 and grace-before-works. Drinking-the-essence links to Har Ras.
For Raag Devgandhaari
Frames the transcendence of the One as a problem (how reach the unreachable?) and answers it with the raag's whole theology: you don't reach it, it gives itself through grace and the good.
"Utterly infinite, exceedingly great, deep and unfathomable... How can the Enticer of the mind be obtained?"
The Arc
The settled verdict of exhaustive search — nothing equals the One (rahau); the One as beyond reach, unweighable, and the honest question "how is it obtained?" (v.1); the answer — not by search but by the teacher and grace, drinking the essence (v.2).
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Near-and-far paradox links to Shabad 7 (within/without) and Shabad 35 (among all yet distinct). "How obtained? — by the teacher, by grace" links to Shabad 28 and grace-before-works. Drinking-the-essence links to Har Ras.
For Raag Devgandhaari
Frames the transcendence of the One as a problem (how reach the unreachable?) and answers it with the raag's whole theology: you don't reach it, it gives itself through grace and the good.