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Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji Ki Fateh!!

Editorial: Here's a question from the first line after Mul Mantar:

ਸੋਚੈ ਸੋਚਿ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਸੋਚੀ ਲਖ ਵਾਰ ॥
Socẖai socẖ na hova▫ī je socẖī lakẖ vār.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/announcements/32836-japji-translation-questions.html

The English translation by H. McLeod (and another I have but don't have the author with me) translates the above as:

"Never can you be known through ritual purity thought one cleanse oneself a hundred thousand times."

Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa and the majority of other translations I've seen translate it like this:
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=32836

"By thinking, He cannot be reduced to thought, even by thinking hundreds of thousands of times."

So my questions is: which translation is right? And how can there be such discrepancy between translations?

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