Japuji Saheb - he is the greatest of the great

there are millions of underworlds
and infinite skies above.
the vedas say millions have searched and searched,
only to end in exhaustion.
the holy books claim eighteen thousand worlds
but only one power behind all creation.

if anything could be written we would keep the account,
but all estimates are destructible.

nanak says, he is the greatest of the great.
he alone can know himself.
those who worship praise him,
but have no remembrance of him,
as rivers and streams know not the ocean
into whose vastness they fall.

even kings and emperors of great domains,
who possess enormous treasures,
cannot compare with the lowly ant
with remembrance of god in his heart.