Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the whole ocean, and I am a small fish swimming in You. In You I live and breathe; away from You I could not last a moment. You are not something I visit — You are the water I am made to live in.
Toon jalnidh, ha-o jal kaa meen — "You are the ocean of water, I am a fish of that water." The image says the seeker is not separate from the divine any more than a fish is separate from the sea (readers may connect this with the wave-and-ocean picture of haumai, an interpretive link rather than the shabad's own wording). The point is total dependence held as total belonging: the fish does not fear the ocean, it lives by it.
What is something you depend on so completely that you barely notice it, the way a fish barely notices water?
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