Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are in every heart. In everything that exists — there is only One.
Some are givers and some are receivers. Some have more, some have less. But this whole dance of giving and receiving is Your play — You are both the giver and the enjoyer. There is no one else.
You are infinite, limitless. What words could possibly describe You?
Those who serve You — I am a sacrifice to them. Being near someone who recognises the oneness is itself a gift.
The heart of So Purakh deepens the teaching of the first shabad: there is literally no place where the oneness is not. "In each and every heart" — not in some hearts, not in the hearts of good people or holy people. Every heart. This is the radical implication of Ik Onkar.
The statement "you are both the giver and the enjoyer — I know no other than You" is a complete collapse of the subject-object divide. Normally we experience life as: I am here, and things happen to me or for me. Guru Ram Das points at the possibility that the "I" and the "things" and the happening are all expressions of the same oneness, which is both the giver and the receiver of everything.
Has anyone ever done something kind for you that felt like more than just them doing it — like something larger was moving through them? What did that feel like?
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