Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everything that is seen is You, Lord.
You Yourself created the world for Your own pleasure. You Yourself consider it.
All of it is You. The diversity of what appears is You expressing Yourself.
One of Guru Arjan's most complete statements of divine immanence: jo dikhaa soi toohai — whatever is seen is You. Not a metaphor — a direct statement that they are truly one. Everything visible is the divine.
"Created the world for Your own pleasure" — aapan khelaao aap khilaa-i-aa — the world as the divine's play (leela in Sanskrit). Not meaningless play, but the divine's own expression, created for the divine's own contemplation.
The implications: if everything seen is the divine, then seeing is always an encounter with the divine. Every perception is a potential recognition.
Can you look at something ordinary right now — a wall, a hand, a tree — and try to see the divine in it? Not metaphorically but directly. What does that effort feel like?
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