ਗੁਰ ਕੀ ਭਗਤਿ ਕਰਹਿ ਕਿਆ ਪ੍ਰਾਣੀ ॥
gur kee bhagat karahi ki-aa paraanee.
O mortal being, what devotional worship have you performed to the Guru?
ਬ੍ਰਹਮੈ ਇੰਦ੍ਰਿ ਮਹੇਸਿ ਨ ਜਾਣੀ ॥
barahmai in-dar mahays na jaanee.
Even Brahma, Indra and Shiva do not know it.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰੁ ਅਲਖੁ ਕਹਹੁ ਕਿਉ ਲਖੀਐ ਜਿਸੁ ਬਖਸੇ ਤਿਸਹਿ ਪਛਾਤਾ ਹੇ ॥੧੪॥
satgur alakh kahhu ki-o lakhee-ai jis bakhsay tiseh pachhaataa hay. ||14||
Tell me, how can the unknowable True Guru be known? He alone attains this realization, whom the Lord forgives. ||14||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
How can we ever love the One enough to match all it gives?
Even the greatest beings of old could not fully fathom this wonder.
The unknowable becomes known only as a gift of grace — and grace is always ready, waiting for the heart that opens to it.
Even the greatest beings cannot measure the One that grace makes known.
Barahmai in-dar mahays na jaanee — even Brahma, Indra and Shiva, great beings of old, do not know it. The unknowable satgur alakh is known only by those the One forgives (bakhsay), and grace is always ready for the open heart.
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