Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Among creators, You are the Creator. Among the cultured, You are the Cultured One.
Among bankers, You are the True Banker. Among merchants, You are the Merchant.
The litany reaches into the everyday world of work and trade — creators, bankers, merchants — and finds the One at the top of these too. This is important: the sacred is not cordoned off from commerce and craft. The One is "the True Banker," "the Merchant" — the raag's recurring commercial imagery raised to the divine. Even the marketplace, so often treated as the opposite of the holy, has the One as its summit. There is no zone of honest human activity where the One is absent.
Where do you assume the sacred 'doesn't belong'? What if the One is the summit even there?
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