Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
He is the fisherman and the fish. He is the water and the net.
He is the weight on the net. He is the bait.
This verse says that the One plays every part in the story, even the tools.
Aapay maachhee machhulee — He Himself is the fisherman and the fish. Aapay paanee jaal — He Himself is the water and the net. Aapay jaal mankarhaa aapay andar laal — He is the little weight that sinks the net, and He is the bait inside.
Think of a video game where one person designed the world, the heroes, the monsters and the rules. Every piece you meet came from the same mind. Here it goes even further. The One is not only the maker and the players. The One is the net, the bait, and the way they all meet.
So the One is not just someone standing inside the world. The One is the whole of it, the pattern that holds it all together. Some thinkers today, in religion and in science, wonder in a similar way whether awareness is not a thing inside reality but the very shape of reality itself.
If you are both the one being sought and the one seeking — if the longing and the source of the longing are the same — what does that mean for your spiritual practice?
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