ਕਿਆ ਗੁਣ ਤੇਰੇ ਆਖਿ ਵਖਾਣੀ ਕੀਮਤਿ ਕਹਣੁ ਨ ਜਾਈ ॥
ki-aa gun tayray aakh vakhaanee keemat kahan na jaa-ee.
Which of Your Glorious Virtues should I describe and speak of? Your value cannot be described.
ਪੇਖਿ ਪੇਖਿ ਜੀਵੈ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਅਪਨਾ ਅਚਰਜੁ ਤੁਮਹਿ ਵਡਾਈ ॥੩॥
paykh paykh jeevai parabh apnaa achraj tumeh vadaa-ee. ||3||
I live by beholding, beholding You, O God. Your glorious greatness is wonderful and amazing! ||3||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Which of Your countless goodnesses could I even begin to name? No one can put a price on You.
I stay alive just by looking at You, and Your greatness leaves me full of wonder.
Wonder is not a break from real life -- it is one of the truest ways to be alive.
Keemat kahan na jaa-ee -- no price can be spoken. Paykh paykh jeevai -- one lives by beholding, by looking; wonder itself (achraj) becomes a way of staying alive to the world.
A Question to Sit With
What is something you could look at more slowly, until it fills you with wonder?
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