ਜਿਨਿ ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਮਹੇਸੁ ਉਪਾਏ ॥
jin barahmaa bisan mahays upaa-ay.
He who created Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva,
ਸਿਰਿ ਸਿਰਿ ਧੰਧੈ ਆਪੇ ਲਾਏ ॥
sir sir DhanDhai aapay laa-ay.
links each and every being to its tasks.
ਜਿਸੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਤਿਸੁ ਆਪੇ ਮੇਲੇ ਜਿਨਿ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਏਕੋ ਜਾਤਾ ਹੇ ॥੨॥
jis bhaavai tis aapay maylay jin gurmukh ayko jaataa hay. ||2||
He merges into Himself, whoever is pleasing to His Will. The Gurmukh knows the One Lord. ||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The great powers people have named and honored across the ages — all of them come from the One.
Each being is given its own work to do.
And the heart turned toward the Guru sees, behind all the names, a single Oneness.
Behind every name people give the sacred stands one Oneness.
Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh (Shiva) come from the One, and every name points past itself to ayko, the One. Each being is sir sir dhandhai laa-ay, set to its own task.
A Question to Sit With
Why do you think people have so many different names for the sacred?
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