Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is born as every kind of life — from egg and seed, from warmth and water, from the earth itself — and it is all the lands and worlds too.
It is the thread, and it is every bead strung upon it: all the countless beings are one necklace held together by a single string.
When the thread is drawn back, the beads simply gather home again.
This one says all the countless beings are one necklace, strung on a single thread.
The verse begins with four words: andaj, jayraj, saytaj, ut-bhuj. They are the old names for the four ways life begins: from an egg, from a mother, from warmth and moisture, and from the earth like a sprout. The One is born as all of them.
Then comes the big picture. Soot means thread and manee-aa means beads. The One is the thread, and every bead too. Think of a friendship bracelet: lots of different colored beads, all held by one string. Every living being is one of those beads.
The verse says that when the thread is pulled back, the beads fall into heaps. Here we read it gently. The string is drawn back, and the beads simply gather home again.
What's something made of many separate pieces that only works because one thing holds them together?
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