Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
When you stop fighting how things unfold — when even the hard turns start to taste sweet, because you trust the hand behind them —
you begin to see the One looking back at you from every heart.
It fills every place and every gap between. There is only One, everywhere you turn.
This verse shares a secret about seeing. How you see the world depends on whether you've made peace with it.
Tayraa keetaa jis laagai meethaa — the person to whom Your doings taste sweet. Ghat ghat paarbarahm tin jan deethaa — that person sees the Supreme One in every heart. Paarbarahm means the Supreme One, beyond everything. The key is "Your doings taste sweet." Even the hard things the One sends begin to taste sweet, because you trust the love behind them.
Why would a change of heart change what you see? Because fighting clouds the eyes. While you're fighting what's real — resenting this, fearing that — you see a world of threats and walls. You can't see the One inside them. It's like trying to read with your eyes squeezed shut in a frown. But when trust grows until even hard turns taste sweet, that fog lifts. Suddenly the One is visible everywhere, looking back at you from every heart — even the hearts of people you found hard to be around.
The verse ends with the One everywhere: thaan thanantar too hai too hai — in every place and every space between, You are, You are. Iko ik vartaavani-aa — You alone are present everywhere. Not only in holy or pleasant places, but in every spot and every gap between spots, with no corner left out. This is Ik Onkar, the One, as something you actually see, not just an idea. Whoever stops fighting the One's will finally sees what was always true. There is only One, filling everything. The feeling of being separate lived only in the eye that was fighting.
Is there a hard thing in your life you're resisting — and what might you see differently if you could trust the hand behind it?
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