Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Maker poured down kindness on everything it made. It cherishes and takes care of every creature, every living being, without exception. Tender, kind, full of mercy — it makes all of them satisfied and full, every last one. No creature is forgotten or left hungry.
This pauri describes the One's care for all of creation — and the emphasis falls entirely on universality. Daiaa dhaaree tin sirjanhaare — "the sirjanhaar (Creator) daiaa dhaaree (poured out kindness/mercy)." The very nature of the Creator toward what it has made is daiaa — tenderness. The world is not made and abandoned; it is made and cherished.
Jeea jant sagle pratipaare — "[the One] pratipaare (cherishes, nurtures) sagle (all) jeea jant (beings and creatures)." Note sagle — all. Not the good ones, not the holy ones, not the human ones only — every being and creature. The same parental care (pratipaal, Shabad 13) given to the seeker is given to all that lives. The sparrow, the worm, the stranger, the enemy — all are cherished by the One.
The verse piles up the words for mercy: miharvaan kirpaal daiaalaa — "merciful, gracious, compassionate." Three near-synonyms in a row, as if one word could not hold how kind the One is. And the result: sagle tripat aghaae — "all are tripat aghaae (satisfied, filled to fullness)." The fulfillment that the seeker found (the end of hunger, throughout the section) is here extended to every being — the whole of creation is fed and satisfied by the One. This is a vision of a benevolent cosmos: a Creator whose fundamental disposition is mercy, who cherishes every creature without exception and satisfies them all. For children, this is a foundational reassurance about the nature of reality itself: the universe is not indifferent or hostile at its root; it is daiaal — kind — and it leaves no creature uncared-for. The cooling of one heart and the watering of the land now opens into the truth that the One tenderly feeds all that lives.
The verse says the One cherishes "all beings and creatures," not just some. If the maker of everything is kind to every living thing — even the small, the strange, the unloved — what does that ask of us?
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