Even Great Seekers Missed the One That's Near yet Formless
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Yogis wore themselves out searching, and never found the One's limit.
Understand this: the One is near at hand, yet it has no shape or form.
Two truths held together, as the raag loves. First, the humbling of even the greatest seekers: "the Yogis are tired of searching, but have not found His limit" — the One exceeds all effort to measure or capture it (as Raag Devgandhaari says too). Second, and in the same breath: "the Lord is near at hand, but He has no form." So the One is both beyond the reach of the mightiest searchers and right beside you — near, but formless, which is why the searching Yogis, looking for a form to find, missed the formless nearness. You cannot find it by searching for a shape; you find it by recognizing the formless presence already here.
If something is real and close but has no shape to point to, how would you come to know it's there?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI