Sikhism·Raag Devgandhaari·Shabad 39
Verse 1 of 3

I have looked in so many ways, but there is no other like the Lord.

ਮੈ ਬਹੁ ਬਿਧਿ ਪੇਖਿਓ ਦੂਜਾ ਨਾਹੀ ਰੀ ਕੋਊ ॥
mai bahu bidh pekhio dhoojaa naahee ree kouoo ||
I have looked in so many ways, but there is no other like the Lord.
ਖੰਡ ਦੀਪ ਸਭ ਭੀਤਰਿ ਰਵਿਆ ਪੂਰਿ ਰਹਿਓ ਸਭ ਲੋਊ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
kha(n)dd dheep sabh bheetar raviaa poor rahio sabh louoo ||1|| rahaau ||
On all the continents and islands, He is permeating and fully pervading; He is in all worlds. ||1||Pause||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

I have looked so many ways, but there is nothing else like the One.

On every continent and island, in every world, it is fully present, filling all.

Wherever anyone lives — any country, any shore, any world — the very same One is fully there. No place and no people are ever left out.
The deeper layer

The searching verdict of the last shabad continues, now stressing omnipresence: the One fills "all the continents and islands... all worlds." There is nowhere it isn't. This is Ik Onkar as sheer pervasion — the same One everywhere, in every land and every world, with no gaps and no favorites. For a child growing up aware of a huge and various world — many countries, many peoples — this is a grounding assurance: wherever anyone is, on any shore, the same One is fully present. No place is godforsaken; no people are outside it. The variety of the world does not fragment the One; the One holds all of it, whole, everywhere.

A Question to Sit With

If the same One fills every land and every people, does that change how you see people from far-away places?

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