ਸੋਰਠਿ ਮਹਲਾ ੪ ॥
sorath mehlaa 4.
Sorat'h, Fourth Mehl:
ਆਪੇ ਕੰਡਾ ਆਪਿ ਤਰਾਜੀ ਪ੍ਰਭਿ ਆਪੇ ਤੋਲਿ ਤੋਲਾਇਆ ॥
aapay kandaa aap taraajee parabh aapay tol tolaa-i-aa.
God Himself is the balance scale, He Himself is the weigher, and He Himself weighs with the weights.
ਆਪੇ ਸਾਹੁ ਆਪੇ ਵਣਜਾਰਾ ਆਪੇ ਵਣਜੁ ਕਰਾਇਆ ॥
aapay saahu aapay vanjaaraa aapay vanaj karaa-i-aa.
He Himself is the banker, He Himself is the trader, and He Himself makes the trades.
ਆਪੇ ਧਰਤੀ ਸਾਜੀਅਨੁ ਪਿਆਰੈ ਪਿਛੈ ਟੰਕੁ ਚੜਾਇਆ ॥੧॥
aapay Dhartee saajee-an pi-aarai pichhai tank charhaa-i-aa. ||1||
The Beloved Himself fashioned the world, and He Himself counter-balances it with a gram. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is the scale, the hand that weighs, and the weights themselves.
It is the banker and the trader and the whole exchange between them.
It shaped this entire earth and balances it as easily as a single small weight on the other side.
The One balances the whole earth as easily as a single small weight.
The scale imagery carries the aapay logic into weighing: the One is the balance, the weigher, and the weights — measuring its own self. The last image is quietly staggering: pichhai tank charhaa-i-aa — the vast earth balanced by one tiny grain-weight on the other pan. The immense is held effortlessly. This continues the trade motif that opened at Shabad 24.
A Question to Sit With
What huge thing does something small quietly keep in balance?
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