How Can I Describe Your Greatness?

[Deg_Teg_Fateh]

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Siree Raag on Pannaa 14

Bhee teri Keemath Na Pavai Ho Kaevadd aahaa naao

sireeraag mehalaa 1 ||

kott kottee maeree aarajaa pavan peean apiaao ||

cha(n)dh sooraj dhue gufai n dhaekhaa supanai soun n thhaao ||

bhee thaeree keemath naa pavai ho kaevadd aakhaa naao ||1||

saachaa nira(n)kaar nij thhaae ||

sun sun aakhan aakhanaa jae bhaavai karae thamaae ||1|| rehaao ||

kusaa katteeaa vaar vaar peesan peesaa paae ||

agee saethee jaaleeaa bhasam saethee ral jaao ||

bhee thaeree keemath naa pavai ho kaevadd aakhaa naao ||2||

pa(n)khee hoe kai jae bhavaa sai asamaanee jaao ||

nadharee kisai n aavoo naa kishh peeaa n khaao ||

bhee thaeree keemath naa pavai ho kaevadd aakhaa naao ||3||

naanak kaagadh lakh manaa parr parr keechai bhaao ||

masoo thott n aavee laekhan poun chalaao ||

bhee thaeree keemath naa pavai ho kaevadd aakhaa naao ||4||2||

Siree Raag, First Mehl:

If I could live for millions and millions of years, and if the air was my food and drink,

and if I lived in a cave and never saw either the sun or the moon, and if I never slept, even in dreams

-even so, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? ||1||

The True Lord, the Formless One, is Himself in His Own Place.

I have heard, over and over again, and so I tell the tale; as it pleases You, Lord, please instill within me the yearning for You. ||1||Pause||

If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour,

burnt by fire and mixed with ashes

-even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? ||2||

If I was a bird, soaring and flying through hundreds of heavens,

and if I was invisible, neither eating nor drinking anything

-even so, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? ||3||

O Nanak, if I had hundreds of thousands of stacks of paper, and if I were to read and recite and embrace love for the Lord,

and if ink were never to fail me, and if my pen were able to move like the wind

-even so, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name? ||4||2||