ਜਗਜੀਵਨ ਨਾਮੁ ਤੁਮਾਰਾ ॥
jagjeevan naam tumaaraa.
Your Name is the Life of the world.
ਗੁਰ ਪੂਰੇ ਦੀਓ ਉਪਦੇਸਾ ਜਪਿ ਭਉਜਲੁ ਪਾਰਿ ਉਤਾਰਾ ॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
gur pooray dee-o updaysaa jap bha-ojal paar utaaraa. rahaa-o.
The Perfect Guru has taught me, that by meditating, I cross over the terrifying world-ocean. ||Pause||
ਤੂਹੈ ਮੰਤ੍ਰੀ ਸੁਨਹਿ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਤੂਹੈ ਸਭੁ ਕਿਛੁ ਕਰਣੈਹਾਰਾ ॥
toohai mantree suneh parabh toohai sabh kichh karnaihaaraa.
You are Your own advisor; You hear everything, God, and You do everything.
ਤੂ ਆਪੇ ਦਾਤਾ ਆਪੇ ਭੁਗਤਾ ਕਿਆ ਇਹੁ ਜੰਤੁ ਵਿਚਾਰਾ ॥੨॥
too aapay daataa aapay bhugtaa ki-aa ih jant vichaaraa. ||2||
You Yourself are the Giver, and You Yourself are the Enjoyer. What can this poor creature do? ||2||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your Name is the very life of the world.
The teaching showed me that holding You in mind carries me safely across the wide, stormy sea. You are the One who decides, who listens, who does it all -- Giver and receiver both. What a small, held thing I am beside You.
Feeling small before something vast can be a kind of comfort, not fear.
The Rahau plus verse: jagjeevan naam -- the Name is the Life of the world. Too aapay daataa aapay bhugtaa -- the One is both Giver and Enjoyer; the human answer is not helplessness but wonder at being held inside something so vast.
A Question to Sit With
When you look up at the stars or the ocean, what does feeling small make you feel?
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