ਹਰਿ ਆਪੇ ਸਬਦੁ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਧੁਨਿ ਆਪੇ ॥
har aapay sabad surat Dhun aapay.
The Lord Himself is the Word of the Shabad. He Himself is the awareness, attuned to its music.
ਹਰਿ ਆਪੇ ਵੇਖੈ ਵਿਗਸੈ ਆਪੇ ॥
har aapay vaykhai vigsai aapay.
The Lord Himself beholds, and He Himself blossoms forth.
ਹਰਿ ਆਪਿ ਜਪਾਇ ਆਪੇ ਹਰਿ ਜਾਪੇ ॥੨॥
har aap japaa-ay aapay har jaapay. ||2||
The Lord Himself chants, and the Lord Himself inspires others to chant. ||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One itself is the Word. The One itself is the awareness that hears its music. The One watches, and the One blooms. The One sings, and the One stirs others to sing.
The One is the song, the listener, and the joy of it all at once.
The litany deepens: the One is the Shabad, the awareness that hears it, the beholder, the blossoming, the singer, and the inspirer of singing (cf. "You inspire us to chant"). Subject and object collapse -- the One is both what is heard and the hearing (Anhad Shabad).
A Question to Sit With
Can the watcher and the watched ever be the same thing? When have you felt that?
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