Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your greatness is so vast I can only tell the tiniest sliver of it.
Beyond reach, beyond figuring, lofty and endless — remembering You, we're carried across.
This one steps back from all the pictures and simply stands in wonder.
Bahut opmaa thor kahee — Your greatness is so big, I can tell only a tiny bit. All those pictures of boats, lamps and nests were only a drop.
The verse calls the One agam, out of reach, agaadh, too deep to find the bottom, and apaar, without end. These are the same big words that opened this raag.
Think of trying to describe the ocean with a teaspoon of seawater. The spoon holds real ocean, but not the whole ocean.
Then the last line: simrat naanak taray saar — remembering the One, we are carried across. Wonder has the last word.
What's something so wonderful that words can only catch a sliver of it?
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