Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Through the wisdom of the awakened, the One made all of creation, and strung it — every single thing — onto one single thread, like beads on a necklace.
Out of the formless, it stepped into form. It made the world in every color and kind. When the mind gets tangled in attachment, it feels caught in the cycle of coming and going.
But the One itself stands above all of that, untouched, unchanged. There is no end to it, and no far edge you could ever reach.
The second Pauri, again opening with ONG. The image of the soot (thread) is the key: creation is not a pile of separate objects but beads on one string — the One running invisibly through everything, holding it together. The "three qualities" (trai gun — the three modes of nature) are the ways the world expands into variety. Note the honesty of the fourth line: attachment (moh) of the mind is what "binds" us into the feeling of janam maran, birth and death — the sense of being trapped in a churn. This is diagnosis, not doom: the One remains niraaraa, wholly free of the churn, and since we are strung on the same thread, that freedom is our true nature too. Ant na paaraavaaraa — no end, no shore — closes with the vastness that no mind can circle.
What is one invisible thread that connects things in your life that look separate on the surface?
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