Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Music, delight, all the countless little joys — I let myself settle gently into the One who is behind them all.
Nanak says: the One is the maker and the reason things happen at all, the source of everything. The One alone is showing up as everything you see.
The One is behind every joy, and in the end the One is everything.
Naad is the inner sound, like music heard from inside. Binod kod aanandaa means play, fun and every kind of joy. Sehjay sahj samaa-i-o means sinking, with total ease, into the One behind them all.
Karnaa aap karaavan aapay means the One does everything and makes everything happen. This points straight to Ik Onkar, "One Creator," the first words of the Guru Granth Sahib.
The One is not a maker standing off to one side, like a builder who walks away from a finished house. The One is the single reality showing up as all of it. Think of the ocean and its waves: many waves, one water.
Can you think of a moment of delight and sense the bigger something it seemed to come from?
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