ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਰੁਦ੍ਰੁ ਤਿਸ ਕੀ ਸੇਵਾ ॥
barahmaa bisan rudar tis kee sayvaa.
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva serve Him.
ਅੰਤੁ ਨ ਪਾਵਹਿ ਅਲਖ ਅਭੇਵਾ ॥
ant na paavahi alakh abhayvaa.
Even they cannot find the limits of the unseen, unknowable Lord.
ਜਿਨ ਕਉ ਨਦਰਿ ਕਰਹਿ ਤੂ ਅਪਣੀ ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਅਲਖੁ ਲਖਾਹਾ ਹੇ ॥੧੦॥
jin ka-o nadar karahi too apnee gurmukh alakh lakhaahaa hay. ||10||
Those who are blessed by Your Glance of Grace, become Gurmukh, and comprehend the incomprehensible. ||10||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Even the great beings people honor in their stories bow and serve the One.
Not even they can find where it begins or ends.
Yet grace can let a humble heart glimpse the One that no mind can fully hold.
Even the greatest cannot measure the One — yet grace lets a small heart glimpse it.
Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra (Shiva) serve the One and cannot find its ant, its limit. The great figures stand in wonder before the alakh abhayvaa (the unseen, secretless One). And yet gurmukh alakh lakhaahaa — grace lets an ordinary heart glimpse what they cannot fathom.
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