Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
The limits of the Lord cannot be found — but still, the devotees speak of them.
Speaking about the One who is beyond all limits doesn't make Him smaller. It reveals how vast what we are speaking of actually is.
This is different from everything else we try to describe: the description increases the mystery rather than resolving it.
Guru Amar Das opens this shabad with a paradox: the devotees speak of what cannot be fully spoken (bol bol) — knowing it cannot be exhausted. This is an old poetic way of speaking about the One: saying what the divine is not, or acknowledging what cannot be said, reveals more than definitive claims.
The Guru Granth Sahib itself is an example: 1,430 pages of speaking about what cannot be fully spoken — not because it fails, but because the speaking is itself the practice. Each new expression reveals a new facet without reducing the whole.
Have you ever tried to describe something enormous — an experience, a feeling, a person you love — and found that the more you said, the more there was to say? What was that?
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