ਨਾ ਤਦਿ ਸੁਰਗੁ ਮਛੁ ਪਇਆਲਾ ॥
naa tad surag machh pa-i-aalaa.
There were no heavenly realms, earth or nether regions of the underworld.
ਦੋਜਕੁ ਭਿਸਤੁ ਨਹੀ ਖੈ ਕਾਲਾ ॥
dojak bhisat nahee khai kaalaa.
There was no heaven or hell, no death or time.
ਨਰਕੁ ਸੁਰਗੁ ਨਹੀ ਜੰਮਣੁ ਮਰਣਾ ਨਾ ਕੋ ਆਇ ਨ ਜਾਇਦਾ ॥੩॥
narak surag nahee jaman marnaa naa ko aa-ay na jaa-idaa. ||3||
There was no hell or heaven, no birth or death, no coming or going in reincarnation. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There were no worlds above and no worlds below.
There was no place of reward and no place of dread, and there was no death and no ticking clock.
Nothing was born and nothing passed away; no one arrived and no one left.
Before creation there was no coming and no going, only peace.
The many heavens and lower worlds of the old cosmologies had not yet come to be. Heaven and hell, birth and death, all wait unmade; there is only the calm before creation.
A Question to Sit With
What does it feel like to picture a time with no coming and no going?
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