Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One speaks and the One understands; the One arrives and the One departs.
The One is beyond all form and also wears every beautiful quality — and by grace, the heart learns to look on everyone the same.
Guru Arjan ends with the gift this seeing brings: we learn to look at everyone the same way.
More pairs come first. Bakto kartaa boojhat kartaa — the Maker speaks, and the Maker understands. The Maker comes, and the Maker goes. Nirgun kartaa sargun kartaa — the Maker is nirgun, beyond every quality, and sargun, full of every good quality.
Then the song lands: gur parsaad naanak samdristaa. Gur parsaad means by the Guru's grace. Samdristaa means seeing with an equal eye. When you truly feel the One in everyone, you stop ranking people. Think of a team captain who stops picking favorites, so everyone gets passed the ball. That is Oneness lived out as fairness and love.
What would change if you looked at everyone as carrying the same one light?
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