364 Shabads · 1944 Verses
Raag Aasaa
The Commentary
Kabir sings the One as a Diamond. When the Diamond of the Lord touches the diamond of the mind, the fickle, wind-blown mind grows still and absorbed; this Diamond fills all with Light, found through the Guru (P0). The Pause: the sermon of the Lord is the unstruck, endless song (anhad), and becoming a swan — a pure, discerning heart — one recognizes the Diamond (P1). The close: I have seen the Diamond permeating the whole world; the hidden Diamond became visible when the Guru revealed it (P2).
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Kabir Ji
- Shabad 1A Still Mind Notices the Presence Shining in All
- Shabad 2Send the Foolish Habits Packing and Welcome Wisdom
- Shabad 3What You're Known For Is Who You Really Are
- Shabad 4An Outer Show of Propriety Gains Nothing Lasting
- Shabad 5The Deepest Fear of Love Is Being Cut Off
- Shabad 6The World Is One Cloth Woven by a Divine Weaver
- Shabad 7No Outer Washing Makes an Unkind Heart Good
- Shabad 348The Sacred Pulses in Every Living Leaf
- Shabad 349Easy to Put Off What Matters; Start Now
- Shabad 350Lives Come Out Unequal; How You Hold That Matters
- Shabad 351Real Faith Is Always on the Side of the Mistreated
- Shabad 352The Light and Life in Us Were Only Lent
- Shabad 353The Pull of Wanting Has Fooled Even the Wisest
- Shabad 354You Don't Have to Convince Everyone
- Shabad 355The Mightiest Kingdom Vanished Without a Trace
- Shabad 356Some Truths Turn the World Upside Down
- Shabad 357You Were Made and Kept Safe Before Birth
- Shabad 358Soak Your Whole Self in Love
- Shabad 359Your Inner Life Is a Crowded Household of Feelings
- Shabad 360A Humble Heart With the One Stands Tallest
- Shabad 361Much of What We Chase Is Dream-Like
- Shabad 362After All the Searching, Rest in Belonging to the One
- Shabad 363Real Goodness Is Measured by Kindness to All
- Shabad 364Sometimes You Long, Prepare, and It Hasn't Come Yet
Naam Dayv Ji
Ravi Daas Ji
- Shabad 13Each Animal Is Trapped by One Thing; We Have Five
- Shabad 14The Good-Hearted Are Treasures to Be Near
- Shabad 15Grow Close to Good Like a Plant Beside Sandalwood
- Shabad 16Of All Things, Protect Your Connection to Love
- Shabad 17Keeping the One Carries the Humblest Across
- Shabad 18What Makes the Puppet Dance? What Makes You Live?
Guru Arjan (Mehl 5)
- Shabad 20The World's Price-Tags Are Wrong
- Shabad 21Stop Trying to Control It; a Kind One Holds It All
- Shabad 92Illusion Swallows Whoever Chases It
- Shabad 93The Pressures Lose Their Grip Once You Know You're Safe
- Shabad 94Picture the Soul at Its Best; You Can Become It
- Shabad 95Illusion Shape-Shifts and Chases You From Your Depths
- Shabad 96Stop Maneuvering and Simply Lean on the One
- Shabad 97Life Is a Trading Trip; One Jewel Is Worth It All
- Shabad 98The Beloved Takes You by the Arm as You Are
- Shabad 99Trading on the Sacred Catches Up at the Last Door
- Shabad 100In the Right Company, the Restless Mind Stops Wandering
- Shabad 101Slander Circles Back: Sow Harm and Reap It
- Shabad 102When Every Pleasure Leaves You Restless, It Points Home
- Shabad 103No Advantage Makes You Beautiful If Pride Fills You
- Shabad 104The Self That Struts Dies; the Ego-Dead Lives On
- Shabad 105Your Body Is a Marvel, and It Will Turn to Dust
- Shabad 106When You Long Deeply, a Day Feels Like Many
- Shabad 107The Greatest Treasure Is What You Give Yourself To
- Shabad 108Even Your Turning Toward Good Is a Grace
- Shabad 109The Richest Wealth Is Revealed, Not Seized
- Shabad 110Life Isn't Promised Long; That Makes Each Day Precious
- Shabad 111Know Who Owns All Treasures and Stop Grabbing
- Shabad 112The One Beside You Fills Every Form and Color
- Shabad 113You Search Outside for What's in Your Own Home
- Shabad 114The Name Is Soul, Life, and Wealth in One
- Shabad 115The World Is a Celebration the Maker Decorates
- Shabad 116Your Mind Takes the Shape You Pour It Into
- Shabad 117What Kept You Far Was Never Distance
- Shabad 118The One's Taste Colors You for Good
- Shabad 119What Makes a Soul Dear Isn't Ritual but Humility
- Shabad 120This Human Life Is Your One Chance
- Shabad 121With the One as Constant Friend, What Is There to Fear?
- Shabad 122Surrender Kills the Fever of Restlessness at Its Root
- Shabad 123The Name Removes Not Just the Pain but Its Source
- Shabad 124The Hour We Don't Want Comes Anyway
- Shabad 125An Inner Light Burns Steady in Good Company
- Shabad 126Beneath Every Passing Pain, a Gladness That Stays
- Shabad 127Gamble Away Your Worst and Let Your Best Move In
- Shabad 128When All Is Held in the One, What Game Is Left?
- Shabad 129The World's Prizes Count for Nothing in the True Court
- Shabad 130Almost Everyone Sleeps Through Their Life
- Shabad 131Peace Isn't Getting Your Way; It's Trusting the One
- Shabad 132Tearing Others Down Lifts Their Burden, Not Yours
- Shabad 133No Outer Washing Cleans a Heart Sunk in Passions
- Shabad 134The Dance That Matters Silences the Self
- Shabad 135Grace Lifts the Cast-Aside and Quenches the Fire
- Shabad 136The One Cherishes You Like a Mother and Father
- Shabad 137With the Highest One Yours, What Is Left to Fear?
- Shabad 138If the World Is Poison, the Name Is the Antidote
- Shabad 139Like a Parent Forgiving a Wayward Child
- Shabad 140Forget and the World Feels Enemy; Remember, Friend
- Shabad 141When the Door Opens, the Wandering Stops
- Shabad 142When Someone Escapes the Trap, Ask by Whose Grace
- Shabad 143The Color of Real Love Makes the Soul Beautiful
- Shabad 144The Pain Was Thinking the One Was Far Away
- Shabad 145Be Fully Engaged Outside, Anchored Deeper Within
- Shabad 146Youth Feels Alive, Yet Ends in Dust Without the Deeper
- Shabad 147Devotion Is a Fruitful Garden, Not a Barren Desert
- Shabad 148Real Royalty and Union Both Flow From the Name
- Shabad 149The Obvious Holy Places Aren't Always Where It's Found
- Shabad 150When Peace Settles Inside, Peace Appears Outside
- Shabad 151Wherever You Send Me, I Go: the Secret of Peace
- Shabad 152No Moment Is Too Ordinary to Remember the One
- Shabad 153Remembering the One Is Itself the Doorway to Peace
- Shabad 154The Name Lifts an Unknown Soul Into Honor
- Shabad 155Train Your Eyes on the One and See It Everywhere
- Shabad 156Use This Rare Life Well and You Win It
- Shabad 157Craving and Inner Darkness Lift Together in Company
- Shabad 158True Reverence Offers Even Your Prized Self
- Shabad 159The One Is the Tree and Every Branch
- Shabad 160You Needn't Be Clever, Just Hold the Name
- Shabad 161The Only Rosary You Need Is the Name in the Heart
- Shabad 162All Belongs to the One; So Belong to It Too
- Shabad 163At Peace With the One, Suffering Can't Get In
- Shabad 164The Passions Lead to Ruin; Remembrance to Rescue
- Shabad 165You Live in the One Like a Fish in Water
- Shabad 166Much Outward Grieving Is Performance
- Shabad 167Sleep Through Your One Chance and Wake to Regret
- Shabad 168Long Deeply for the One and Death Runs From You
- Shabad 169A Content Mind Is Mercy's Gift, Not Your Achievement
- Shabad 170Tuned to the One, Fed With Food That Leaves No Hunger
- Shabad 171Meditation on Truth Brings Peace Circumstances Can't
- Shabad 172Time Gnaws the Rope While You Lick Sweets
- Shabad 173The Body's Appeal Is All Borrowed From the Soul
- Shabad 174Joined to the Deathless, You Take On Its Freedom From Fear
- Shabad 175Real Service Is the Humblest Work, Ego Laid Down
- Shabad 176Everything Good Flows From One Spring: Love
- Shabad 177Wealth Piled by Force Is Never Truly Held
- Shabad 178The More You Get of It, the More You Crave
- Shabad 179The Saints Know the One Is Near and Stay as Dust
- Shabad 180Peace and Love Held in Name, Praise, and Company
- Shabad 181The Real Cleansing Bath Is a Whole Way of Living
- Shabad 182The Robbers' Road Runs Far From the Saints' Path
- Shabad 183The Name Is Learned in Good Company
- Shabad 184Holding the Name Lifts Your Whole Circle
- Shabad 185The Company of the Holy Is the World's Hope
- Shabad 186Once the One Drives Out the Rival, the Thirst Quiets
- Shabad 187Illusion Is Bitter Because It Feels Cut Off
- Shabad 188Forgetting the One Is the Root of Pain
- Shabad 189Remembrance Makes the Whole Self New
- Shabad 190Sing of the One Who Supports Your Very Breath
- Shabad 191The Name's Healing Reaches Body, Then the Mind
- Shabad 192A Child Is a Gift Given by Grace
- Shabad 193The One Guards What It Gives
- Shabad 194To Belong Wholly to the One Is the Deepest Freedom
- Shabad 195Try Every Pleasure; None Compares to the One
- Shabad 196One Moment of His Presence Dissolves a Load of Pain
- Shabad 197Honest Humility Makes a Soul Ready to Be Lifted
- Shabad 198Drop the Clutter and Give Yourself, Mind and Body
- Shabad 199Those Who Never Forget Become Just Like the One
- Shabad 200The One Who Fills the Universe Is Your Close Roof
- Shabad 201The River Sweeps People Away While They Sleep
- Shabad 202All Human Company Is Temporary; Only the One Stays
- Shabad 203Remember the One and Suffering Lifts
- Shabad 204The One Is Known by the Turned Heart, Not the Clever
- Shabad 205Devotion Can Be a Shared Feast
- Shabad 206You Make the Beginning; Grace Plants the Seed
- Shabad 207To Belong to the One Is the Great Fortune
- Shabad 208When All Belongs to the One, Nothing to Clutch
- Shabad 209The Highest Virtue Is Seeing the Beloved Is Near
- Shabad 210Doubt Makes You Stagger; Clearing It Finds Your Footing
- Shabad 211The Name Frees You From Lucky and Unlucky Signs
- Shabad 212Everyone You'd Turn To Is a Beggar; Only One Gives
- Shabad 213The Name Is the Provision for the Whole Journey
- Shabad 214Even the Dearest Things Are Guests for a Few Days
- Shabad 215Grace Turns the Upside-Down Upright
- Shabad 216Quick to Run Up Losses, Slow to Buy the Priceless
- Shabad 217Pride in Your Cleverness Blinds You Like Any Craving
- Shabad 218A Moment's Indulgence Can Cost a Very Long Regret
- Shabad 219What You Do in Secret Is Seen and Binds You
- Shabad 220The One Doesn't Wait to Be Called
- Shabad 221Like an Actor in Many Costumes, the Soul Finds No Rest
- Shabad 222A Mind Satisfied With the One Stops Wandering
- Shabad 223Caste and Learning Protect No One From the Five
- Shabad 224Taste the Real and Every Other Flavor Seems Bland
- Shabad 225Grace Flows Like a River of Nectar, Freely Poured
- Shabad 226In Exalted Company, the Song Goes On Every Hour
- Shabad 227Drop the Cleverness and Remember the Formless One
- Shabad 228The One Who Gave You All Befriends the Poor
- Shabad 229Without Good Company, the Soul Wavers and Stumbles
- Shabad 230You Don't Dye Yourself in Love; the One Colors You
- Shabad 231The Vision No One Can Climb To Is Simply Given
- Shabad 232The Word Saves Even the Worthless
- Shabad 233To Live Forgetting the One Is a Kind of Sleep
- Shabad 234The Purest Want Is the Love of the One, Not Its Gifts
- Shabad 235The Unseen One Becomes Visible: the Guru's Gift
- Shabad 236The Most Priceless Thing Brings the Steadiest Calm
- Shabad 237Sometimes the Truest Prayer Is: Help Me Keep Going
- Shabad 238Beholding the Beloved, Love Bursts Out: How Beautiful
- Shabad 239It Can Be This Simple: Remember the One, Within
- Shabad 240To Forget the One Is a Death-in-Life
- Shabad 241Love for the One Never Grows Stale
- Shabad 242When You Long for the One, No Lesser Comfort Reaches
- Shabad 243For Who Won't Wake, Death Becomes the Alarm
- Shabad 244Trade in the Name and the Inner Music Begins
- Shabad 245Craving and Doubt Are a Fortress You Can't Breach Alone
- Shabad 246Only One Thing Bears Lasting Fruit: Remembering
- Shabad 247The Ups and Downs Are One Drama the One Stages
- Shabad 248Turn From the Many Toward the One and Find the Beloved
- Shabad 249Gather Your Scattered Wants Into One Desire
- Shabad 250Praise Sung Outward Opens a Celestial Music Within
- Shabad 251Holding His Support and Accepting His Will Are One
- Shabad 252Sing Together and Gain More Than All the Powers
- Shabad 253Trust What the One Does and the Mind Grows Patient
- Shabad 254You Are a Traveler Here; Listen for the Call Home
- Shabad 293Your Heart Is a City; Choose Who Lives in It
- Shabad 294Love for the Real Stays Clearest in Good Company
- Shabad 295Real Longing Gives Up Much for One True Glimpse
- Shabad 296The Ache of Being Fragile Lifts Before the One Who Isn't
- Shabad 297The Relief of Being Fully Known
- Shabad 321Real Joy Crowds Out the Inner Troublemakers
- Shabad 322Some Things Too Wonderful for Words; Sing Anyway
- Shabad 323Love the One More and See It in Every Heart
- Shabad 324Love for the Good Begins as a Gift
- Shabad 325Search the World and Find It Was Inside You
- Shabad 326You Have a Part to Play; Turn Your Heart
- Shabad 327The Most Important One Never Dies or Grows Old
- Shabad 328Hold the One Close and Even Death's Fear Fades
- Shabad 329The One Is Mother, Father, and Friend at Once
- Shabad 330The Sweetest Thing Is Sharing What Matters With Others
- Shabad 331Only Your Kindness or Harm Comes With You
- Shabad 332The Cure for a Heavy Mood Is to Just Begin
- Shabad 333You're Never Alone; Always in Company That Sees You
- Shabad 334Having Nothing to Boast Lets You Ask to Be Held
Sheikh Fareed Ji
Guru Nanak (Mehl 1)
- Shabad 24True Worship Is Holding the One and Doing Good
- Shabad 26Repeat That It's Great, or See It and Be Changed
- Shabad 27Remembering Is Breathing; the Hunger Eats Your Pain
- Shabad 28Every Cry Is Heard; Even a Not-Yet Is Love
- Shabad 29When the World Chases, Standing Still Is Courage
- Shabad 30The Whole Universe Is the One's Own Body
- Shabad 31Real Worship Is Love Playing Inside, Not a Performance
- Shabad 32The Loudest Heroics Are Nothing Beside the One
- Shabad 33A Good Life Grows Like a Vine, Its Fruit the Name
- Shabad 34Own Your Words; Pleasures Are Empty Without Love
- Shabad 35When Grace Comes Home, Separation Turns to a Wedding
- Shabad 36At Peace, Your Home Is as Holy as Any Forest
- Shabad 37The Wise Are Swans Who Sip Only What Is Pure
- Shabad 38Real Understanding Ends the Arguing
- Shabad 39Hold the Name and Never Be Cut Off
- Shabad 40The Unluckiest Have No Inner Resting Place
- Shabad 41See the One Living Inside as Your Deepest Self
- Shabad 42Before Preaching at Anyone, Understand Yourself
- Shabad 43Beggar or King, All Passes Through One Hand
- Shabad 44A Soul Without the Name Is a Cow Without Milk
- Shabad 45The Only Sacred Thread Is Woven Inside You
- Shabad 46The Truest Servant Is the One Glad to Serve
- Shabad 47The Fragile Body Must Be Ferried Across
- Shabad 48Loving Your Family Isn't Clinging to Them
- Shabad 49I Slip; You Forgive: the Whole Relationship
- Shabad 50The Real Pilgrimage Is Conquering the Five Within
- Shabad 51The Beloved Is Awake; We Sleep Through the Night
- Shabad 52Love Your People, but No One Is Yours to Own
- Shabad 53It's Not the World That Drowns Us but the Clinging
- Shabad 54Behind All the Schools Stands One Teacher
- Shabad 55All Power Counts for Nothing Before the One
- Shabad 56Offered to the Name, Even Suffering Becomes Fuel
- Shabad 57Across the World, All Strain Toward the Same One
- Shabad 58Five Troublemakers Hide Inside; First, Notice Them
- Shabad 59The Soul's Jewelry Is Attention and Compassion
- Shabad 60You Are Not the Author of the Whole Show
- Shabad 61The Real Holy Garb Is Tolerance
- Shabad 62An Intoxication Brewed From Wisdom and Love
- Shabad 63When It Is Terribly Unfair, It's Honest to Ask Why
- Shabad 256The Real Cleansing Dive Is Found Within
- Shabad 257Practice Without Understanding Just Leaves You Wandering
- Shabad 258No Book Can Contain the Infinite
- Shabad 259It's Our Passions That Grieve Loudest at a Death
- Shabad 260Look Within and Test the Worth of Your Jewel
- Shabad 261Turn to the Guru and Wisdom and Peace Follow
- Shabad 262Singing Holy Songs Doesn't Make an Empty Heart Holy
- Shabad 263The Wild Mind Can, Turned Rightly, Find Its Way Home
- Shabad 264When You Die, Whose Is All You Piled Up?
- Shabad 265Serve the Guru: the Thread Out of Every Tangle
- Shabad 266Everything the World Calls Safety Can Vanish in a Day
- Shabad 267Walk a Vanished Kingdom and Hear: Where Did It Go?
- Shabad 268We Are Shepherds Who Think the Pasture Is Ours
- Shabad 269Discover No One Is Yours, and Meet the One Who Is
- Shabad 270The Ocean Grows Calm Exactly as the Mind Does
- Shabad 271A Thousand Roads, and the Destination on None
- Shabad 272The Forest You Were Told to Seek Grows in You
- Shabad 273Feed the Root; Clutch the Branches and Hold Ashes
- Shabad 274The Path Begins in Beauty
- Shabad 275You Can't Describe Him, but You Can Lean on Him
- Shabad 276A Soul Turns and Nothing Is Subtracted From Anyone
- Shabad 277The Wheel of Coming and Going Runs on Separateness
- Shabad 298The One Who Made Everything Also Looks After It
- Shabad 300Love Held Wholeheartedly Floods Warmly Back
- Shabad 301A Quiet Music Plays Under Everything
- Shabad 302One Thing Was Here Before All and Outlasts All
- Shabad 303Wherever You Go, You Are Seen Exactly as You Are
- Shabad 304The Most Tempting Things Turn Bitter Fast
- Shabad 335The Deepest Wisdom Starts by Humbly Asking
- Shabad 336Anyone Can Dress Up Holy; the Costume Isn't the Character
- Shabad 337The One Comforts You Like a Loving Parent
- Shabad 338The Pull of Chasing Pleasure Fools Almost Everyone
- Shabad 339Everyone Comes to the Same Ending
- Shabad 340Some Truths Are Too Deep for Plain Sentences
- Shabad 341The Real Search Happens Inside Your Own Heart
- Shabad 342Everyone, of Every Religion, Comes From the Same One
- Shabad 343Your Life Is a Lamp; Give Light While It Shines
- Shabad 344Even the Greatest Minds Couldn't Read Their Way to God
- Shabad 345When the Showing-Off Part Quiets, Peace Remains
- Shabad 346A Mother's Love Isn't a Scorecard
- Shabad 347The Sacred Is Right Where a Heart Turns to the One
Guru Ram Das (Mehl 4)
- Shabad 25The One You Remember Is Remembering Through You
- Shabad 77Whatever the One Gives Is Exactly What I Receive
- Shabad 78People Take Sides; Only the One's Side Never Fails
- Shabad 79What No Mind Figures Out, the Word Carries You Into
- Shabad 80The Name Isn't a Path to Peace; It Is Peace Itself
- Shabad 81Praise Is a Practice That Prepares the Heart
- Shabad 82The Joy of the Name Arrives in the Listening
- Shabad 83Plant the Name and Taste a Sweetness Beyond Belief
- Shabad 84A Real Hunger for the Name Is Already Being Fed
- Shabad 85Not the Harp in Your Hands but the Song in Your Heart
- Shabad 86Life's Too Short to Spend It Getting Ready
- Shabad 87Wisdom Is a Light Caught in Good Company
- Shabad 88Fear of Death Is the Ego Refusing the Certain
- Shabad 89This Human Life Is a Treasure; Turn It Toward the Real
- Shabad 90Once Revealed, You Can't Do Without It a Breath
- Shabad 91The Soul Longs Like a Camel for the Green Vine
- Shabad 307To Be Truly Alive Is to Feel Part of One Light
- Shabad 308Sweetness Comes Drop by Patient Drop
- Shabad 309The One Makes Even the Messiest Heart Clean
- Shabad 310The Purest Times Remember We Are All Connected
- Shabad 311Joy That Sings Leans the Small Light Toward the Great
- Shabad 312Real Freedom Can Be a Way of Living Right Now
- Shabad 313Before the Vast, the Right Response Is Wonder
- Shabad 314To Be Pure Gold Is to Be Real All the Way Through
- Shabad 315After All the Searching, the Treasure Is Inside You
- Shabad 316The Richest Start Is a Gift Given to You First
- Shabad 317Real Understanding Lets the Searching Finally Stop
- Shabad 318A Loving Heart Makes You Wise, Clumsy Words and All
- Shabad 319Planted in a Remembering Heart, Fear Finds No Room
- Shabad 320Your Wandering Heart Is Being Called Home
Guru Amar Das (Mehl 3)
- Shabad 64The Deepest Path Holds the World Lightly
- Shabad 65Root Out Pride and the One Moves In
- Shabad 66The Guru's Great Work Is Bringing the Soul Home
- Shabad 67The One Is Deeper Than Anyone Can Sound
- Shabad 68Living as If Separate Only Earns Pain
- Shabad 69Crying Mine, Mine Is Sleeping Through Your Life
- Shabad 70Lay Down the World's Rank; Let the Name Be Your Honor
- Shabad 71Lost in Separateness, You Circle Your Own Home
- Shabad 72Real Devotion Flows Once the Guru Kindles It
- Shabad 73Even Understanding Is Something You're Awakened Into
- Shabad 74Die to the Self Once, and Be Done With Dying
- Shabad 75All the Performance Is Empty If No One's Home Inside
- Shabad 76Understanding Comes in Its Own Time, When He Wills
- Shabad 278Every Holy River Runs Inside the Ocean of the Name
- Shabad 279Doubt Is Not Argued Out; It's Moved Out
- Shabad 280Most Hoping Is a Way of Being Asleep
- Shabad 281Peace Has an Address, and It's Not Your Circumstances
- Shabad 282Prepare the Room and the Guest Comes on His Own
- Shabad 283You're Not Far From the Treasure, Just Locked Out
- Shabad 284Self-Knowledge Is the Sweetest Thing You Can Taste
- Shabad 285Estrangement Isn't His Absence but Your Love Elsewhere
- Shabad 286Fame Is the Shadow of the Color; Tend the Dye
- Shabad 287Every Craving Is the One Thirst in Disguise
- Shabad 288The Beloved Was Never at the End of a Journey
- Shabad 289The Host Needs Nothing; the Cup Is Poured for You
- Shabad 290Trace Any Virtue Back to the Same First Hand
- Shabad 291A True Heart's Ordinary Speech Carries the Word
- Shabad 292The Menu of Other Tastes Is Endless, and None Is Food
- Shabad 299Everything Made Will Pass; Stay Awake to What Lasts
- Shabad 305The Celebration Begins When Me-First Melts Away
- Shabad 306The Path of Love Asks a Lot, but the Door Is Open