Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Among names, Your Name is the most honored. Among the wise, You are the Wisest.
Among ways, Yours is the Best Way. Among cleansing baths, Yours is the most purifying.
The litany turns to the religious superlatives themselves — names, wisdom, ways, purifying baths — and tops them too. This is a gentle iconoclasm even toward religion: the One is greater than any name given to it, any way that leads to it, any sacred bath. "Yours is the Best Way" — the way to the One is finally the One itself. This keeps devotion from idolizing its own methods: no name, path, or ritual is the point; the One they all reach toward is.
Have you ever mistaken the path or the ritual for the destination? How do you keep your eyes on the real thing?
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