Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The One is utterly One and only — and yet shows itself in countless forms.
Whatever pleases it, Nanak says, that alone is good.
The 22-verse hymn closes on the raag's non-dual truth: the One is "absolute... The One and Only; but He Himself is also manifested in many forms." One reality, appearing as the endless many — unity and diversity held together without contradiction. And the final word is surrender: "whatever pleases Him... that alone is good." The vast song of gratitude and fellowship ends where all the raag ends — in the One, single and everywhere, whose Will is the measure of the good.
How do you hold both: that there's one reality behind everything, and that it shows up in endless different forms?
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