The One Isn't Trapped in Any Day on the Calendar
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
One Oneness, known through the grace that is always here.
There are fifteen days in the moon's cycle and seven days in the week — the calendar we live by, ticking along. But the One you are looking for? It isn't caught inside any of those days. It isn't "here" on this date or "there" on that one — it is beyond all the marking of time.
And when those who seek deeply come to know this open secret, something astonishing dawns: they discover the One was never separate from them. In that knowing, the seeker and the Creator are found to be one — there was never a wall between them at all.
The calendar has its days. But the One is not caught inside any of them.
This verse starts a new short poem inside Kabir's alphabet set. It is called Thitee, "the lunar days." A thitee is a poem of devotion that walks through the days of the moon's cycle, one by one. It opens with its own blessing, Ik Onkar Satgur Prasaad. That means there is One, known through the grace of the True Guru. It is a grace that is always here, not something handed in from outside.
The first salok, a short verse, sets the scene. Pandreh thitee saat vaar — fifteen moon days and seven weekdays. Kahi kabeer urvaar na paar — says Kabir, the One is on neither this shore nor the far one. You cannot pin the One to a date or a place. It is like trying to find "today" on a map.
Saadhik sidh lakhai ja-o bhay-o — when the saadhik, the seekers, and the sidh, the accomplished ones, see this mystery. Aapay kartaa aapay day-o — they find themselves one with the Creator, the Divine.
Read through Ik Onkar, this is not someone claiming to become God. It means a false wall falls down. The seeker sees that there were never two. There was only the One, all along.
Can something truly important — like love, or wonder — be pinned to a single day, or is it always with you?
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