Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There is only One. And the One is found by the True Guru's grace — a gift that is always here, waiting for an open heart.
The One who made the world watches over it — what more is there to say, friends?
It alone knows, and it alone acts; it laid out this whole garden of a world.
Guru Nanak starts with calm trust: the One who made the world watches over it.
Jin kee-aa tin daykhi-aa — the One who made it looks after it. Then he calls the world a vaarhee, a garden, that the One laid out. A garden is planted and tended. It isn't a machine left to run by itself.
Ki-aa kahee-ai ray bhaa-ee — what more can we say, friends? Think of a child falling asleep in the back seat on a long drive. The child doesn't need to know every turn. A parent is driving.
That is the quiet here. The heart stops needing to explain everything. It rests in the One's knowing and doing.
Does it steady you to picture the world as a tended garden rather than a machine running on its own?
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