Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everything that begins and everything that ends happens through the **shabad**, the divine Word.
Through that same Word, things are made all over again.
The one who faces the light (the **gurmukh**) sees that the True One is moving through it all. He creates, and He gathers everything back into Himself.
This one is about how everything begins and ends. Guru Amar Das says it all happens through the shabad, the divine Word.
Utpat parla-o sabday hovai — making and ending both happen through the Word. The Word is more than something you hear in a hymn. It is the power that makes worlds and folds them up again. And the same Word that melts your ego (the proud "me, me, me" voice) when you hear it inside is the one that makes the worlds. There aren't two powers, one for the universe and one for your heart. One Word does both.
Then it happens again: sabday hee fir opat hovai — through the Word, making happens once more. It isn't a single event with a start and a finish. It is more like breathing in and out. Think of the seasons, or the monsoon that comes, leaves and returns every year. The world isn't a finished thing sitting on a shelf. It is being sung into being all the time.
The gurmukh, the one who faces the Guru and the light, understands this. Upaa-ay samaavani-aa: the One creates, and then gathers everything back in. The gurmukh isn't scared by all the rising and falling. They see that everything comes from the One and goes back to the One. So they stop clutching. Picture a wave that knows it will sink back into the same ocean it rose from. It can ride high without being afraid.
If everything that begins also ends and returns to its source, does that make endings less frightening — or more meaningful?
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