ਪਾਤਾਲਾ ਪਾਤਾਲ ਲਖ ਆਗਾਸਾ ਆਗਾਸ ॥ ਓੜਕ ਓੜਕ ਭਾਲਿ ਥਕੇ ਵੇਦ ਕਹਨਿ ਇਕ ਵਾਤ ॥ ਸਹਸ ਅਠਾਰਹ ਕਹਨਿ ਕਤੇਬਾ ਅਸੁਲੂ ਇਕੁ ਧਾਤੁ ॥ ਲੇਖਾ ਹੋਇ ਤ ਲਿਖੀਐ ਲੇਖੈ ਹੋਇ ਵਿਣਾਸੁ ॥ ਨਾਨਕ ਵਡਾ ਆਖੀਐ ਆਪੇ ਜਾਣੈ ਆਪੁ ॥ ੨੨॥
Translation in English :
There are hundreds of thousands of lower or nether worlds, and hundreds of thousands of skies (one above the other). In vain the searchers have tried to find their limit and number, but all have failed to do so. Even the Vedas say that the created universe is boundless.
The eighteen Purans and the four books (the Torait, the Zend- Avesta, the Bible and the Koran) declare with one voice, that there is but One everlasting Reality, the Divine Essence and the whole universe is His manifestation.
Were it possible to enumerate and measure His creation, one would attempt to do so, but He is above all this calculation. No human intellect can find the number or the limit of His boundless Creation.
Sayeth Nanak the Creator is above all His creation and He alone can know and realize it. All that one should do is to sing His praise in complete devotion and ecstasy, and be at-one with Him, leaving aside all these dry and fruitless calculations.
