You Are the Primal Being — Nothing Has Ever Been Like You
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
You are the Primal Being — the most wondrous creator. There has never been anything like You, and there never will be.
Age after age, You are the same One. Forever and ever, You are the same One. You do not change.
Everything that happens happens because of Your will. You Yourself are behind everything that occurs.
You created the entire universe, and when the time comes, You Yourself will dissolve it all. Nanak sings Your praises — the one who knows all.
So Purakh ends with the widest possible view: before any age, before any creation, there was the Primal Being. After all ages, after all creation has dissolved, there will be the Primal Being. The universe is not something separate from the oneness that it manages from outside. The oneness created it from itself, watches over it as itself, and will dissolve it back into itself.
This is the teaching of Ik Onkar carried to its logical completion: if there is only oneness — no second — then creation and creator are not two things. They never were.
When you think about the fact that the universe existed for billions of years before you were born, and will exist for billions after — what feeling does that give you? Is it frightening, comforting, or something else entirely?
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