ਸਲੋਕ ਮਃ ੧ ॥
salok mehlaa 1.
Shalok, First Mehl:
ਪਹਿਲ ਬਸੰਤੈ ਆਗਮਨਿ ਪਹਿਲਾ ਮਉਲਿਓ ਸੋਇ ॥
pahil basantai aagman pahilaa ma-uli-o so-ay.
Spring brings forth the first blossoms, but the Lord blossoms earlier still.
ਜਿਤੁ ਮਉਲਿਐ ਸਭ ਮਉਲੀਐ ਤਿਸਹਿ ਨ ਮਉਲਿਹੁ ਕੋਇ ॥੧॥
jit ma-uli-ai sabh ma-ulee-ai tiseh na ma-ulihu ko-ay. ||1||
By His blossoming, everything blossoms; no one else causes Him to blossom forth. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Spring brings the very first flowers — but the One blossomed even before that, before the first blossom of anything.
And here is the wonder: because the One blossoms, everything else gets to blossom too. Your own blossoming, and the whole world's, all flows from that first opening. Nothing makes the One bloom; the One is where blooming begins.
Everything that blossoms does so because the One blossomed first.
pahil basantai aagman, pahilaa ma-uli-o so-ay = before spring's arrival, the One blossomed first. jit ma-uli-ai sabh ma-ulee-ai = by the One's blossoming all blossom — the One as the source of all flourishing (vigaas), itself uncaused.
A Question to Sit With
Where do you see new life blossoming around you right now?
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