Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
By Its own will, the One made the whole world, and the One Itself feeds it and holds it up.
By Its own will, the One makes a mind clean and shining, and fills it with love for the One.
By the One's will, I meet the True Guru, who makes my whole life beautiful.
The same will of the One that made the whole world also cleans our hearts and leads us to the Guru.
The verse repeats one phrase three times: har aapnai bhaanai, "by the One's own will." This will is also called Hukam, the flow of all that is. First, it made the world and it holds the world up. Second, it makes the mind clean and full of love for the One. Third, it leads us to the True Guru.
The One is called savaaranhaar, the one who makes a whole life beautiful. Think of the same sun that lights the whole sky also warming one small plant on your windowsill. The power that made the stars is at work in one heart too.
What makes you feel connected to something much bigger than yourself?
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