Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The Lord pervades the water, the land, and the sky — there is no other at all. He is in everything.
The Lord Himself sits on His Throne and administers justice. He drives out the false-hearted.
He gives greatness to those who are truthful — His justice is righteous.
So praise the Lord, everybody — He protects the poor and the lost souls.
He honors the righteous and punishes the sinners.
Divine justice as the Vaar's recurring theme
The Pauree asserts the Lord's justice in the starkest terms: He beats and drives out the false-hearted (kūṛi'ār). He bestows greatness on the truthful. He honors the righteous (dharamī'ā). He punishes the sinners (pāpī'ā). This is not the soft universalism of a God who accepts everyone regardless of conduct. It is a God of active and righteous justice.
The Vaar's consistent theme of divine justice (begun in Pauree 1 with the "One Court") reaches a concentrated expression here. The Shaloks preceding this Pauree described the soul-bride who resists the Husband's Will and the ocean of Maya. The Pauree provides the structural frame: the Lord is the judge who gives each what they have actually become.
Protecting the poor and the lost
Gareeb anāth sarnā'e — "He protects the poor and the lost souls." The Lord's justice is not only punitive for the false and rewarding for the righteous. It is also protective of the gareeb (poor) and anāth (those without a protector). In the divine economy, those who have no earthly advocate have the Lord as their advocate.
The Lord's throne
Har āp jā'e tahkit baithe, nyā'u kare saṅkā'i — "The Lord Himself sits upon His Throne and administers justice." The Lord is not delegating. He is not absent. He sits and administers — personally, presently, directly. The divine governance is immediate.
*What does it feel like to believe that there is genuine justice operating at the deepest level of reality — that what you actually are, not just what you appear to be, matters and is seen?*
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