Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Just as a pitcher is shaped out of clay,
everything is made from the beloved Creator, Beethul, the One alone.
Everything is made of the One, the way a pot is made of clay.
A clay pitcher is only clay, shaped by a potter. Aap hee kartaa beethul day-o means the beloved Maker made everything from itself. Beethul (Vitthal) is the name Namdev used for the One, as the One was loved at the temple in his home region of Pandharpur.
The world is the One taking shape. Think of cookies cut from one sheet of dough. They come in many shapes, but it is all the same dough. That is oneness said as simply as it can be.
What is something that looks like many things but is made of one thing?
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