Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What glories of yours could I possibly describe? You are great and unfathomable, the greatest of all.
The One has been kind to servant Nanak, and has saved the sinking stone.
The shabad ends with two moves held together. First, the honest surrender of description: "what virtues can I describe? You are unfathomable." Words run out before the One (as in Japji Pauri 16, and in Raag Devgandhaari). Second, the raag's most vivid grace-image: "He has saved the sinking stone." A stone cannot float — by its own nature it goes straight down. But grace carries it across anyway. Nothing about the stone changes; the carrying does. This is the whole gospel of the jewel-parable completed: you did not earn your rescue by becoming light enough to float. You were simply lifted, as you are.
What's the difference between having to earn your way across and simply being carried? Which one is this describing?
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