O mother, I focus my consciousness on the Guru's feet.
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
So many servants and silent sages sing of you, yet no one has ever found where you end.
Giver of peace, ender of pain — Nanak is forever a sacrifice to you.
After the intimacy of "the One is inside me," Guru Arjan opens the lens to vastness: countless people across all of history have sung of the One, and not one has ever reached its edge. This is the same wonder that fills Japji (Pauri 24: "the oneness has no end"). The two truths sit together perfectly — the One is closer than close, and larger than anything can measure. It is not far because it is vast, and not small because it is near. The verse ends in the raag's characteristic tenderness: "Giver of peace, Destroyer of pain" — the vast, edgeless One is also the intimate comforter.
How can something be closer to you than your own breath and also bigger than the whole universe?
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