44 Shabads · 854 Verses
Closing Sections
The Commentary
Salok Sehskritee is composed in sehaskritee — a Sanskritized register that would have sounded learned and elevated to its first hearers. Part of its quiet argument is made by its very form: it borrows the prestige-language of scholarship in order to say that scholarship, ritual, and ornament are not the point. Carry the teaching, not the ornament.
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Guru Nanak (Mehl 1)
Guru Arjan (Mehl 5)
Bhatts — Kalsahar ('Kal'), Bhalh, Jaalap, et al.
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Jaalap), Verse 11 — carrying what cannot run out
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Jaalap), Verse 12 — one heart, set on the One
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Jall), Verse 13 — one wisdom, handed along
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Jaalap), Verse 14 — the peace that ends the running
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Keerat), Verse 15 — a boat wide enough for everyone
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Keerat), Verse 16 — the formless One, a lamp you can see by
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Keerat), Verse 17 — good that rubs off on you
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Keerat), Verse 18 — setting worries down and trusting
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Bhikhaa), Verse 19 — when the inside noise settles
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Bhikhaa), Verse 20 — sweet words are not the real thing
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Salh), Verse 21 — the battle fought and won inside
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Amar Das (by the bard Bhalh), Verse 22 — goodness too big to count
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the Teacher fills what was empty in you
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — everything changes at the Teacher's touch
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — when the Teacher is on your side
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — without a light you cannot see the road
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — keep the Teacher in your mind
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — one look at the Teacher and the thirst is answered
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — a steady hand placed on your head
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the One who has always come through for people
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — a name worth keeping on your tongue
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — wash your mind in clear water
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — an ocean deep enough to hold everything
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the same door open to everyone
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the boat and the boatman both
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the One beyond compare
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the One who staged the whole play for joy
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — one One wearing a thousand stories
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — your own treasure, right inside you
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — no one can say where the One began
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — the great play where the One is everything
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in praise of Guru Ram Das, Verse 1 — words sweeter than anything
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Ram Das (Bhatt Mathura), Verse 1 — the Boundless One who lives in the Teacher
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Ram Das (Bhatt Balh), Verse 1 — the One fills all three worlds
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Ram Das (Bhatt Keerat), Verse 1 — serving, the jewel of wisdom shines
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Ram Das (Bhatt Sall), Verse 1 — the throne of truth, unshakable
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Arjun, the Fifth (Bhatt Kall), Verse 1 — in the House of Guru Ram Das, a new light
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Arjun (Bhatt Mathura), Verse 1 — one flame lighting the next
- The Closing SaloksSavaiye in Praise of Guru Arjun (Bhatt Harbans), Verse 1 — the Name flowing like a river, never dying