Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Lord is said to be the Highest of the High. No one can perceive Him.
Wherever I look, I see only You. The True Guru has inspired me to see You.
The Divine Light within is revealed, O Nanak, through this intuitive understanding.
The Ashtapadee's closing pauri resolves the paradox of its opening (the divine is beyond all description) with the resolution of practice: wherever I look, I see only You. Not because the divine is now comprehensible but because the Guru has granted the vision. Intuitive understanding (surath) is what reveals the Divine Light — not intellectual grasp, not accumulated learning. The surath that sees the divine everywhere.
Is there a way you've started to see something differently — in people, in nature, in daily situations — because of a teaching or insight you received? What changed?
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