Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Beloved is everything — it sets things up and takes them down again.
It watches its own creation and lights up with joy, working wonders and then delighting in them.
It's alive in every forest and field, and through the teaching it steps into view.
This one says: the One made everything, and lights up with joy watching it.
Aapay hee sabh aap hai pi-aaraa: the Beloved is everything. Thaap uthaapai means the One sets things up and takes them down again. Making and unmaking, both sides belong to the One.
The tender heart of this verse is vaykh vigsadaa. The One watches, and blossoms with joy. It is like a child who builds a block tower and then just sits and smiles at it. The One is its own happy audience.
Van tin means woods and grasses. So that joy lives in ordinary nature, in every park and field. And through the gurmukh, the person who turns toward the Guru, the hidden Maker steps into view.
What do you make or do that fills you with joy just to look at afterward?
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa·How we use AI