Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
O Lord, You are Your Own Glorious Praise. You Yourself speak it; You Yourself hear it and contemplate it.
You Yourself are the Jewel, and You are the Appraiser. You Yourself are of Infinite Value.
O True Lord, You are Honor and Glory. You Yourself are the Giver.
The divine as self-referential: speaks His own praise, hears His own praise, contemplates His own praise. This sounds like ego — but it is the exact opposite of ego. Ego is a small self trying to make itself appear large. The divine IS the reality; the praise is simply the accurate description.
'You Yourself are the Jewel, and You are the Appraiser' — Aap ratan aap parkhanhaar — the divine has the unique quality of being both the thing of value and the one who knows its value. No external measure, no external judge. The divine is self-calibrating, self-knowing, self-sufficient.
What would it mean to know your own value directly, without needing external validation? What gets in the way of that?
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