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Kirtan Sohila is so beautiful! Sweetest bani of all, IMHO. Like a painting in words.
The passage you quote is a vision Guru Nanak is having during the aarti. God is 'nirgun' and God is 'sirgun.' i.e., nirgun = formless, unmanifested, beyond time and space; but God is also sirgun - manifested in all the forms we see in the creation.
These two states of being are simultaneous. Ek Ong Kar - the One exists in the unseen creative energy(Ong) and also within the creation (Kar.) They are not separate. They inter-depend. Behind the thousands of eyes that creatures have is the One Eye of God looking out through all of them... beyond the "I" - the sense of self, lies the watcher and the knower of all; within us and without us. As the Tao Te Ching says: "The ten thousand forms arise from the One and dissolve back into the One." This is a constant flow of creation and dissolution at every moment.
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Kirtan Sohila is so beautiful! Sweetest bani of all, IMHO. Like a painting in words.
The passage you quote is a vision Guru Nanak is having during the aarti. God is 'nirgun' and God is 'sirgun.' i.e., nirgun = formless, unmanifested, beyond time and space; but God is also sirgun - = manifested in all the forms we see in the creation.
These two states of being are simultaneous. Ek Ong Kar - the One exists in the unseen creative energy(Ong) energy (Ong) and also within the creation (Kar.) They are not separate. They inter-depend. Behind the thousands of eyes that creatures have is the One Eye of God looking out through all of them... beyond the "I" - the sense of self, lies the watcher and the knower of all; within us and without us. As the Tao Te Ching says: "The ten thousand forms arise from the One and dissolve back into the One." This is a constant flow of creation and dissolution at every moment.