Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You Yourself created the Universe.
You created the play of duality and staged it.
The Truest of the True is pervading everywhere — and He instructs those with whom He is pleased.
Aap-ay jag-u upaaay-aa, doojaa khel rachaa-ay — You Yourself created the universe; You created the play of duality (doojaa — the second, the other-than-One; khel rachaa-ay — created and staged the play). The play of duality — the appearance that there is a second thing besides the Lord — is also the Lord's creation. Not an accident. Not a mistake. The divine staged the duality in which all souls wander, as part of the composition.
Saach-aa saach-u vartai, tis-s maani-aa jo khoosh-ee aa-ay — the Truest of the True (saach-aa saach-u — the most real, the truest truth) pervades everywhere; He instructs (maaniaa — causes to accept, causes to understand) those with whom He is pleased (jo khoosh-ee aa-ay — those who come to His pleasure). The divine's teaching is selective — not arbitrary, but responsive to His pleasure. He instructs those with whom He is pleased. And His pleasure, as Pauri18 established, is His own nature: He seeks out virtue and overlooks fault.
The play of duality and the instruction of the pleased — together these resolve the paradox: the duality that traps is the divine's own creation, and the instruction that liberates is also the divine's own gift. Both are His. Neither is outside His authorship.
What is your experience of duality — the sense that you are separate from others, from the divine, from what you long for? Where does that feeling come from?
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