Word Of The Day: pe?

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Meaning: noun: Tree.

Quote:
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too? pe? saakh teree phoolee.
(O Creator!) You are like a Tree, and creation is like your branches, which have blossomed from you, the Tree.
– Guru Arjan Sahib, Guru Granth Sahib, Page 102

Message: What a beautiful illustration of the Creator and creation! Are they one or two different entities? What relationship do they have with one another? Gurbani enlightens us through the example of a tree. In this verse, the tree and its branches metaphorically express the Creator and creation and reiterate to us that each species and each life cycle has blossomed from the One Root.

This is how the world was created. Only the Subtle or Unseen reveals itself in the form of the Manifest or Seen. Hence, we, the creatures, are inseparable part of the Creator.

It�s only our mind�s delusion that makes us think that the Divine and we are two different entities. The same can be said of humanity in general. We are united as one human race though we have diverse looks, origins, etc.

There is no other than the ONE. Embrace this Oneness and be in spiritual harmony, internally and externally all the time.

The divine reveals itself in the physical world. – Albert Einstein, 1879 � 1955

Notes: Another example is of the ocean and the bubbles on its surface. Are they two different things or one and the same? Yet another example is of a rosary — the thread, the beads and the knots � are these all different or one? These are all same, only their names are different.

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Etymology: From Hindi pe?.