Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Know that there is one, and only one, One.
You who face the teacher — know that it is One.
This is Ik Onkar stated as bare instruction: "know that there is One and only One." Guru Arjan strips it to the essential. Everything in the raag — all the longing, the grace, the crossing — rests on this single recognition: there is only oneness, no second (see README). The repetition ("know it is One... know it is One") is not filler; it is the point being pressed home, because this one recognition is the whole thing. Once you truly know there is only One, the separations that caused all the trouble were never ultimately real. The Gurmukh — the one facing the teaching — is defined precisely by holding this knowing.
What changes about how you see the world if there is truly only 'one' — no real separation between anything?
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