Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
In every form, He is the one filling it. Through every pair of eyes, He is the one looking out.
The whole creation is His body. His own praise - He is the one listening to it.
He staged the drama of coming and going, and made the glitter serve His will. In the middle of everything, He stays unattached.
Whatever is said - He is saying it. We come by His will, we go by His will - and when it pleases Him, we are gathered all the way home.
The One fills every form, so every pair of eyes is the One looking out.
This verse takes healed seeing to its last frontier: other people. Sarab nain aap paykhanhaaraa — through all eyes, He Himself is watching. Every look that has ever met yours was the One looking out through another window. A stranger's eyes. The eyes of someone you are cross with. The eyes of someone you love. One Watcher. That is why seeing everyone equally, earlier in Sukhmani, is not a hard rule to practise. It is something you discover.
Sagal samagree jaa kaa tanaa — the whole creation is His body. Ik Onkar means the One who is all, and here that idea comes very close. The universe is not something He owns. It is His body. Hurting any part of it is like touching His skin.
Aapan jas aap hee sunaa — He Himself listens to His own praise. This closes a surprising loop. Every kirtan, every sung hymn, is the One singing to the One through borrowed voices. Earlier in Sukhmani, creation was the One quietly thinking of Himself. Here we hear it out loud. Think of a family singing together in the car. Every voice is different, but it is one song.
The middle lines keep two facts side by side. Aagi-aakaaree keenee maa-i-aa — He made Maya obey His will. Maya is the shiny pull of the world. It is never a rival power, only a servant that sometimes oversteps, as other shabads teach too. Sabh kai maDh alipato rahai — in the middle of all, He stays untouched. Like a lotus that grows in a pond and stays clean, He is in everything and held by nothing.
Next time you look someone in the eyes - family, friend, stranger - who might be looking back?
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