ਸਾਗਰੁ ਤਰਿਓ ਬਾਛਰ ਖੋਜ ॥
saagar tari-o baachhar khoj.
I have crossed over the world-ocean, as if it were no bigger than a calf's footprint on the ground.
ਖੇਦੁ ਨ ਪਾਇਓ ਨਹ ਫੁਨਿ ਰੋਜ ॥
khayd na paa-i-o nah fun roj.
I shall never again have to endure suffering or grief.
ਸਿੰਧੁ ਸਮਾਇਓ ਘਟੁਕੇ ਮਾਹਿ ॥
sinDh samaa-i-o ghatukay maahi.
The ocean is contained in the pitcher.
ਕਰਣਹਾਰ ਕਉ ਕਿਛੁ ਅਚਰਜੁ ਨਾਹਿ ॥੩॥
karanhaar ka-o kichh achraj naahi. ||3||
This is not such an amazing thing for the Creator to do. ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have crossed the huge ocean of the world as if it were no bigger than a calf's hoofprint in the mud.
Suffering and grief will never trouble me again.
A whole sea can fit inside a small cup —
and for the Maker of everything, that is no surprise at all.
The thing you dread crossing can turn out to be smaller than you feared.
Saagar tari-o baachhar khoj — the ocean crossed as easily as a calf's hoofprint in mud. And sindh samaa-i-o ghatukay maahi, the sea contained in a pitcher: the vast made small, the impossible made light. For the One who made the ocean and the cup, there is nothing strange in it at all.
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