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One of the wonderful properties of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is that it meets the reader wherever she or he is. I might read a shabad today and the meaning is clear and obvious, then return to the same shabad in a couple years to find that the meaning is clear and obvious - but it means something entirely different to me than it did before because I have moved farther along on my journey and have a different level of understanding. The words have not changed, but I have.Every shabad has enough levels of meaning to keep us all busy learning for a very long time. Basic and simple? Perhaps for some, it is basic and simple at each level, but with so many depths of meaning, who is to say what it "really" means? As Ishna ji wrote, even if the meaning is basic and simple, we humans aren't.
One of the wonderful properties of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji is that it meets the reader wherever she or he is. I might read a shabad today and the meaning is clear and obvious, then return to the same shabad in a couple years to find that the meaning is clear and obvious - but it means something entirely different to me than it did before because I have moved farther along on my journey and have a different level of understanding. The words have not changed, but I have.
Every shabad has enough levels of meaning to keep us all busy learning for a very long time. Basic and simple? Perhaps for some, it is basic and simple at each level, but with so many depths of meaning, who is to say what it "really" means? As Ishna ji wrote, even if the meaning is basic and simple, we humans aren't.
