I have seen the Lord to be on high; the Fascinating Lord is the highest of all.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Endless, vast, deep and unfathomable — lofty, beyond reach.
Its weight can't be weighed, its worth can't be priced. How can the Enchanter of the mind be grasped?
Now the flip side of "highest of all": the One is beyond reach. "Utterly infinite, deep, unfathomable, lofty, unreachable" — you cannot weigh it, price it, or grasp it. This is the raag holding both poles again (as in Shabad 7): the One is nearest of the near and beyond all reach. And notice the honest question the verse ends on: "How can the Enticer of the mind be obtained?" It is a real question, not rhetorical. If the One cannot be grasped, weighed, or reached, then how does anyone come to it? The very framing rules out grasping — and points, by elimination, toward the only answer the raag ever gives: not by seizing, but by being given; not by reaching, but by grace.
If something is too big and deep to ever grab hold of, how else might you come to have it?
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