Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The oldest, most respected books all reach for the biggest words they know to describe the One — and still say it has no edge, no end, no far shore.
And you know who looks truly beautiful? The people singing that praise, standing at the doorway of the One, grateful and glad.
Even the wisest books cannot find the edge of the One, and the people who simply sing at the One's door are the ones who shine.
The khat saastar are the six great schools of thinking in old India. They call the One oochou, the highest. Yet they also admit ant na paaraavaar: there is no end, no far shore.
The verse respects those thinkers. Then it turns the spotlight. The ones who soheh, who shine with beauty, are the bhagat. A bhagat is someone who loves the One. They are not measuring the endless. They are simply singing at the duaar, the door.
Think of trying to measure the ocean with a ruler, while a child nearby just plays in the waves and laughs. Knowing points the way. Love arrives. Guru Arjan comes back to this again and again: the humble singer at the doorway shines brightest.
Is there something you understand better by loving it than by measuring it?
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