ਆਪੇ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਨਾਰੀ ॥
aapay purakh aapay hee naaree.
You Yourself are the male, and You Yourself are the female.
ਆਪੇ ਪਾਸਾ ਆਪੇ ਸਾਰੀ ॥
aapay paasaa aapay saaree.
You Yourself are the chess-board, and You Yourself are the chessman.
ਆਪੇ ਪਿੜ ਬਾਧੀ ਜਗੁ ਖੇਲੈ ਆਪੇ ਕੀਮਤਿ ਪਾਈ ਹੇ ॥੫॥
aapay pirh baaDhee jag khaylai aapay keemat paa-ee hay. ||5||
You Yourself staged the drama in the arena of the world, and You Yourself evaluate the players. ||5||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the man and the woman, both alike and both from You.
You are the game board and every single piece upon it.
You set up this whole playground of a world, and You are the One who sees how each of us plays.
The whole world is one great game, and the One is playing every part.
The chess and arena images present the world as the One's own staged play, with the One present as every player, board, and piece. The male-and-female line is one of Gurbani's quiet statements that the divine is beyond and within both.
A Question to Sit With
If life is a kind of game, what does it mean to play it well?
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