Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
All beings belong to you, O Lord and Master. All beings are yours. How can you become angry with them?
Even if you were to become angry with them — you are still theirs, and they are still yours.
The relationship cannot be broken. Not even by anger. Not even by failure. Not even by forgetting.
This pauri contains one of Gurbani's most tender theological arguments: because all beings belong to the divine, the divine cannot ultimately be alienated from them. Even in the darkest estrangement, the relationship holds.
This is the Gurprasad (grace) principle in its most complete form: the oneness cannot withhold itself from its own creation. The separation is always the creature's experience, never the Creator's reality.
Have you ever been angry with someone you love — and still felt, even in the anger, that the love was underneath it? What does that tell you about love?
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