ਬ੍ਰਹਮਾ ਬਿਸਨੁ ਮਹੇਸੁ ਤ੍ਰੈ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਤ੍ਰਿਗੁਣਿ ਭਰਮਿ ਭੁਲਾਈ ॥੧੬॥
barahmaa bisan mahays tarai moorat tarigun bharam bhulaa-ee. ||16||
The three forms of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are trapped in the three qualities, lost in confusion. ||16||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva — the three great forms, the maker, the keeper and the changer of the world — are caught in those same three forces too.
They are lost in confusion.
Even the greatest forces move within something greater still.
Barahmaa, bisan, mahays — Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, the three great cosmic roles of creation, preservation and change — move within the trai gun themselves. Nobody is belittled here: the eye is lifted past all forms to the Formless One who is beyond the three qualities.
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