Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
What if you became a bird — soaring through hundreds of heavens, invisible to everyone, needing no food or drink?
What if you flew forever, through every sky there is?
Even then, you would not find the edge of this. Even then, you couldn't put a number on this greatness.
There is no ceiling. There is no wall. And learning that — really accepting it — changes how lightly you hold your own ideas about what's possible.
This third variation in the series introduces the image of flight — freedom from earthly constraints, the ability to move through heavens, to become invisible. And still: not enough.
The hundreds of heavens image is interesting — Guru Nanak does not assume a single heaven or a single afterlife. There are many planes, many realms. Even moving through all of them, you could not reach the limit of the oneness.
This expands the frame of what we might call "the universe" — not just the physical cosmos but all possible realms of existence. And the oneness exceeds even that.
If there are hundreds of heavens, does it change how you think about what happens after we die? Does it make it feel bigger or smaller?
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