Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
At the very center of everything is the spotless One, the light in all. There truly is no gap between it and you: you are it, and it is you.
Beyond every limit, the highest, the One that holds all — Nanak has met it, met it in the teaching.
This one ends the shabad at its peak: there is no gap between the One and you. The verse says "I am That, and That is me," a thought often called So-ham. Then it adds bhayd na ko-ee — there is no difference. Nothing separates you from the One. This is Ik Onkar, "One Creator of all," lived from the inside. A wave is never apart from the ocean. It was ocean all along.
The verse also calls the One tat niranjan, the spotless heart of everything, and jot sabaa-ee, the light in all. Then come big names: aprampar, beyond all limits; paarbarahm, the Highest; parmaysar, the Supreme One. All these big names end in one close meeting. Naanak gur mili-aa so-ee — Nanak has met that One, met it through the Guru.
The shabad's two big ideas close together here. One is the single eye that sees everyone as equal. The other is the drop that finds it is the ocean.
What would it feel like to know, deep down, that you were never truly separate from anything?
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