Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One has made everything in great, overflowing abundance — so much, more than enough. In its kindness, it has satisfied everyone, holding all within its will. Keep giving your gifts, my Great Giver — and look: every creature, every living thing, is filled and content.
If the Rahao was the rain falling, this pauri is the abundance the rain brings. Sabh kichh bahuto bahut upaaiaa — "[the One] has upaaiaa (created, produced) everything bahuto bahut (in great, great abundance — the doubling emphasizing overflowing plenty)." The world the One makes is not stingy; it is lavish, overflowing, more than enough. After the monsoon, the land bursts with growth — fields heavy with grain, ponds brimming, everything green and plentiful. The One's creation, rightly seen, is generous abundance.
Kar kirpaa prabh sagal rajaaiaa — "by kirpaa (grace), the One holds sagal (all) within its rajaa (will, ordering)." All of this abundance is held within the One's benevolent ordering (Hukam again, continuing from the Rahao). The plenty is not random; it flows from a gracious will that holds everything.
And then a beautiful prayer-and-recognition: daat karahu mere daataaraa, jeea jant sabh dhraape — "keep giving your daat (gifts), my daataaraa (Great Giver), [and look] all jeea jant (beings and creatures) are dhraape (satisfied, filled, contented)." The seeker asks the Giver to keep giving — and in the same breath observes that all beings are already satisfied. There is something lovely in this: the prayer for more is offered from a place of already-fullness. And the satisfaction is universal — jeea jant sabh, every creature without exception is fed and content (recall sagle tripat aghaae, Shabad 28). This is the abundance and inclusiveness of grace once more: the rain falls on all, the harvest feeds all, no creature is left hungry. For two boys, the picture is of a fundamentally generous universe — the hymn's praise of the Creator's abundant care, all creatures imagined fulfilled within the Divine will.
The verse sees the world as overflowing with enough for everyone, not as a place of scarcity. How might you act differently if you really trusted that there is "enough" — that you don't have to grab and hoard?
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