Like sunlight reaching every leaf, the One soaks into every heart.
The Arc
Sunlight spreads out and lands on everything at once. The One fills every heart the same way, through and through. Every place you can name, the One is there. You meet the One through the Guru's Word. The same One lives deep inside you and inside everyone you see today. Meet the Guru, and that hidden light shines out. When greed fills your head, the One can feel far away. The One is right here, filling everything. The One is at work in the whole world. Whatever the One does comes to pass, so you can rest in it. At the centre, the Rahao: the One fills every place, and the Guru's Word helps you meet the One.
Key Vocabulary
ik-tukay — single-line couplets.
sooraj kiran — the sun's rays; the One reaching every heart equally.
ghat ghat antar — within each and every heart.
har ayko karay so ho-ay — whatever the One does comes to pass (Hukam).
Themes and Cross-Connections
This is the first Guru Ram Das (M4) shabad in Raag Basant. The sun's-rays image of an evenhanded, all-reaching presence connects to the many shabads about the One present in everything; whatever the One does comes to pass ties to Hukam, the flow of life.
For Raag Basant
Where Guru Amar Das paints the world blossoming, Guru Ram Das paints it lit — the same One reaching everywhere, like light with no favorites.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One fills every place there is Preview: sun's rays on everything, the One in every heart, a hidden light shining out, a world held in one flow
Today: Sunlight spreads out and lands on everything at once. The One fills every heart the same way, through and through. Every place you can name, the One is there. You meet the One through the Guru's Word. The same One lives deep inside you and inside everyone you see today. Meet the Guru, and that hidden light shines out. When greed fills your head, the One can feel far away. The One is right here, filling everything. The One is at work in the whole world. Whatever the One does comes to pass, so you can rest in it.
The One fills every place, and the Guru's Word helps you meet the One.
For today: Stand in the sunlight for a moment today and remember the One fills every heart around you.
Like sunlight reaching every leaf, the One soaks into every heart.
The Arc
Sunlight spreads out and lands on everything at once. The One fills every heart the same way, through and through. Every place you can name, the One is there. You meet the One through the Guru's Word. The same One lives deep inside you and inside everyone you see today. Meet the Guru, and that hidden light shines out. When greed fills your head, the One can feel far away. The One is right here, filling everything. The One is at work in the whole world. Whatever the One does comes to pass, so you can rest in it. At the centre, the Rahao: the One fills every place, and the Guru's Word helps you meet the One.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
This is the first Guru Ram Das (M4) shabad in Raag Basant. The sun's-rays image of an evenhanded, all-reaching presence connects to the many shabads about the One present in everything; whatever the One does comes to pass ties to Hukam, the flow of life.
For Raag Basant
Where Guru Amar Das paints the world blossoming, Guru Ram Das paints it lit — the same One reaching everywhere, like light with no favorites.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One fills every place there is Preview: sun's rays on everything, the One in every heart, a hidden light shining out, a world held in one flow
Today: Sunlight spreads out and lands on everything at once. The One fills every heart the same way, through and through. Every place you can name, the One is there. You meet the One through the Guru's Word. The same One lives deep inside you and inside everyone you see today. Meet the Guru, and that hidden light shines out. When greed fills your head, the One can feel far away. The One is right here, filling everything. The One is at work in the whole world. Whatever the One does comes to pass, so you can rest in it.
The One fills every place, and the Guru's Word helps you meet the One.
For today: Stand in the sunlight for a moment today and remember the One fills every heart around you.