ਆਸਾ ਮਹਲਾ ੧ ॥
aasaa mehlaa 1.
Aasaa, First Mehl:
ਜੇਤਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਧੁਨਿ ਤੇਤੀ ਜੇਤਾ ਰੂਪੁ ਕਾਇਆ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
jaytaa sabad surat Dhun taytee jaytaa roop kaa-i-aa tayree.
As much as the Shabad is in the mind, so much is Your melody; as much as the form of the universe is, so much is Your body, Lord.
ਤੂੰ ਆਪੇ ਰਸਨਾ ਆਪੇ ਬਸਨਾ ਅਵਰੁ ਨ ਦੂਜਾ ਕਹਉ ਮਾਈ ॥੧॥
tooN aapay rasnaa aapay basnaa avar na doojaa kaha-o maa-ee. ||1||
You Yourself are the tongue, and You Yourself are the nose. Do not speak of any other, O my mother. ||1||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Every bit of truth that sounds in a mind is Your music. Every shape in the whole universe is Your body.
You are the tongue that tastes and the nose that smells — there is nothing here that is not You. So let me not speak of any other, Mother.
The whole universe is the One's body — there is no "other" anywhere to speak of.
This is radical immanence: the universe is literally described as the One's body, the Shabad in the mind as the One's melody, even the senses (tongue, nose) as the One's own. "Do not speak of any other" is not jealousy but accuracy — if all of it is the One, there is no "other" to speak of. This is Ik Onkar taken to its limit.
A Question to Sit With
If everything around you were one living body, how would you treat the parts of it?
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