The One is the tree and the branches, the sun and the rays, hidden and revealed, with every quality and beyond all qualities — both meeting in a single point, seen everywhere as pure bliss.
The Arc
Pauri 0: He is the tree and the branches, preserving His crop. The Pause (Pauri 1): wherever I look, the One alone, in every heart. Pauri 2: the sun and its rays, concealed and revealed. Pauri 3: of highest qualities and beyond all qualities — both converging in Him. Pauri 4: the Guru cleared doubt and fear; the One, pure bliss, seen everywhere.
Key Vocabulary
tree and branches / sun and rays: the One as source and emanation, whole and parts
concealed and revealed: hidden in essence, shown in everything
sargun and nirgun: with highest attributes and beyond all, converging in one point (cf. Shabad 37)
the embodiment of bliss: the One seen everywhere as joy
Themes and Cross-Connections
This shabad is concentrated immanence (Ik Onkar, Kudrat): tree-and-branches and sun-and-rays picture the One as both source and all that flows from it. The hymn says that the attributed and the beyond-attributes descriptions — sargun and nirgun — meet in the One "at a single point"; readers can sit with that poetic unity without forcing a philosophical resolution (Shabad 37, Shabad 81). The world seen as bliss echoes the blissful One of Shabad 155.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is a vision: doubt cleared, the One seen everywhere as pure bliss. The mood is luminous and contemplative — the whole of things shining as one joy.
The One is the tree and the branches, the sun and the rays, hidden and revealed, with every quality and beyond all qualities — both meeting in a single point, seen everywhere as pure bliss.
The Arc
Pauri 0: He is the tree and the branches, preserving His crop. The Pause (Pauri 1): wherever I look, the One alone, in every heart. Pauri 2: the sun and its rays, concealed and revealed. Pauri 3: of highest qualities and beyond all qualities — both converging in Him. Pauri 4: the Guru cleared doubt and fear; the One, pure bliss, seen everywhere.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
This shabad is concentrated immanence (Ik Onkar, Kudrat): tree-and-branches and sun-and-rays picture the One as both source and all that flows from it. The hymn says that the attributed and the beyond-attributes descriptions — sargun and nirgun — meet in the One "at a single point"; readers can sit with that poetic unity without forcing a philosophical resolution (Shabad 37, Shabad 81). The world seen as bliss echoes the blissful One of Shabad 155.
For Raag Aasaa
Aasaa's hope is a vision: doubt cleared, the One seen everywhere as pure bliss. The mood is luminous and contemplative — the whole of things shining as one joy.