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Ang 1Vaar 8Bhai Gurdas

ਕੇਵਡੁ ਤੋਲੁ ਸੰਜੋਗੁ ਦਾ ਕੇਵਡੁ ਤੋਲੁ ਵਿਜੋਗੁ ਵੀਚਾਰਾ ।

kevadd tol sanjog daa kevadd tol vijog veechaaraa |

How to think about the periphery of meeting (Sanjog) and separation (vijog), because meeting and separation is part of a continuous process among the creatures.

ਕੇਵਡੁ ਹਸਣੁ ਆਖੀਐ ਕੇਵਡੁ ਰੋਵਣ ਦਾ ਬਿਸਥਾਰਾ ।

kevadd hasan aakheeai kevadd rovan daa bisathaaraa |

What is laughing and what are the limits of weeping and wailing?

ਕੇਵਡੁ ਹੈ ਨਿਰਵਿਰਤਿ ਪਖੁ ਕੇਵਡੁ ਹੈ ਪਰਵਿਰਤਿ ਪਸਾਰਾ ।

kevadd hai niravirat pakh kevadd hai paravirat pasaaraa |

How to tell the perimeter of indulgence and repudiation?

ਕੇਵਡੁ ਆਖਾ ਪੁੰਨ ਪਾਪੁ ਕੇਵਡੁ ਆਖਾ ਮੋਖੁ ਦੁਆਰਾ ।

kevadd aakhaa pun paap kevadd aakhaa mokh duaaraa |

How to describe the virtue, sin and the doors of liberation.

ਕੇਵਡੁ ਕੁਦਰਤਿ ਆਖੀਐ ਇਕਦੂੰ ਕੁਦਰਤਿ ਲਖ ਅਪਾਰਾ ।

kevadd kudarat aakheeai ikadoon kudarat lakh apaaraa |

Nature is indescribable because in it one extends to millions and millions.

ਦਾਨੈ ਕੀਮਤਿ ਨਾ ਪਵੈ ਕੇਵਡੁ ਦਾਤਾ ਦੇਵਣਹਾਰਾ ।

daanai keemat naa pavai kevadd daataa devanahaaraa |

The evaluation of that (great) Giver cannot be done and nothing can be told about His expansion.

ਅਕਥ ਕਥਾ ਅਬਿਗਤਿ ਨਿਰਧਾਰਾ ।੫।

akath kathaa abigat niradhaaraa |5|

His ineffable story, beyond all bases is always unmanifest.