Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
A single drop lives inside the whole ocean, and the whole ocean lives inside that one drop too. Who understands this, and knows how it can be?
The One makes this amazing, ever-sprouting play of a world, looks at it, and knows what it is made of.
The drop is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the drop. The part and the whole hold each other.
Saagar meh boond boond meh saagar — the ocean in the drop, and the drop in the ocean. The first half is easy to picture: one drop of water in the big sea. The second half is the surprise. Every drop is made of the very same water as the whole ocean. Taste one drop and you know what the ocean tastes like.
This is one of Gurbani's great pictures of oneness. We are the drop, and the One is the ocean. We are inside the One, and the One is inside us.
Ut-bhuj chalat means the wonderful play of a world that keeps sprouting and growing. The same One who makes this play also watches it, and tat pachhaanai, knows what it is made of at its core.
How can a small part hold something as big as the whole?
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