Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every shape and every color in the world is Yours — my deep, glowing jewel.
Whatever brightness we have comes from You; we're small, and You are the source of it all.
This one says: every color and shape comes from the One, and so does any brightness you have.
This is the last verse of the ashtapadee, a hymn of eight verses. It ends in wonder. "All forms and colors are Yours... my deep crimson ruby." Crimson is a deep, glowing red.
In Gurbani, deep red is the color of love that lasts, like a dye that never washes out. "Only that color which You give, Lord, exists." Think of a box of paints. Every color in the picture came out of that box. Whatever brightness we carry was given to us.
What's a bright, good quality in you that you're grateful to have been given?
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