Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You Yourself bring us into union, and You watch over us from right up close, always **hadoor**, right here.
You are spread completely through everyone and everything, filling it all to the brim.
O Nanak, the One is everywhere, doing everything. The ones who turn toward the light, the **gurmukhs**, are the ones who understand this.
This last verse says the One is right here, filling everything to the brim, and those facing the Guru come to see it.
"TooN aapay mayleh vaykheh hadoor" — You Yourself bring us together, and You see us hadoor, up close. Hadoor means right here, face to face. The song began by calling the One alakh and agam, unseen and out of reach. It ends by stressing how near He is. The endless One of the opening is also the One right beside you. Both are true at once.
The middle line is the heart. "Sabh meh aap rahi-aa bharpoor" — You are bharpoor in all, filling everything to the brim. Not just present in things, but soaking them through, like water in a sponge. Nothing is empty of the One. This grows out of the earlier line, "there is no other." There's no second thing, and the One fills every seeming thing to overflowing.
The last line says what the whole journey was for. "Naanak aapay aap vartai gurmukh sojhee paavni-aa" — Nanak says, God Himself is at work everywhere, and the gurmukh, the one facing the Guru, understands. Sojhee means understanding, a dawning. The gurmukh doesn't create a new world. They see the world that was always there. The One was always enjoying every heart, always sheltering every creature, always filling everything. Nothing about reality changed across these eight verses. What changed is the seeing.
Think of waking in a dark room as the morning light slowly fills it. The furniture was there all night. Now you can see it. That's the gift here. The spiritual life isn't a trip to somewhere else. It's the slow opening of your eyes to the One who was right here all along, filling everything, and you too.
If the One were truly filling everything to the brim — every person, every tree, even you — what is the very next thing you'd look at differently?
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