Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One who made everything is the very One who listens, and the One who sees.
The One is hidden, and the One is right here in plain view.
The One shapes things into being and lets them go.
The One touches everything, yet is never tangled in any of it.
Guru Arjan says the same One is inside every action, and yet caught by none of it.
The verse is a chain of pairs, and every pair ends with kartaa, the Maker. Sunto kartaa paykhat kartaa — the Maker listens, and the Maker sees. The Maker is unseen, and seen. The Maker forms things and ends them. Bi-aapat kartaa alipato kartaa — the Maker touches everything and stays untouched. Alipato means not stuck, like a lotus flower that rests on muddy water yet stays clean.
Think of sunlight on a puddle. The light reaches right into the water, but the sun never gets wet. The One is fully in everything and trapped by nothing. A Gurmukh, a person who faces the Guru, learns to live with that same balance.
Can you be fully involved in something and still stay calm and free inside?
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