Ang 660–695
Raag Dhanaasaree
The Commentary
This composition opens Raag Dhanaasaree and bundles two of Guru Nanak's shabads. The first (verses closing ||4||1||) begins with the Mool Mantar and a frightened soul's cry, to whom shall I call out?, answered immediately by the ever-fresh Giver; it moves through several pause-refrains, each leaning on the same trust: without the Beloved, how could I even live? The second shabad (closing ||5||2||) is a gentle memento mori: we are beings of a single breath, so wake, look at how short the days are, give the whole self back to the One it came from, and live free of the grasping ego while still fully alive.
Contents
- Shabad 1Where Do I Turn When My Heart Is AfraidCommentary →
- Shabad 2How Can I Even Begin To Remember YouCommentary →
- Shabad 3Grace First, Then Remembrance FlowsCommentary →
- Shabad 4The Restless Heart That Forgets Its SongCommentary →
- Shabad 5A False Heart's Praise Means NothingCommentary →
- Shabad 6The Body Is Paper, The Mind Its WritingCommentary →
- Shabad 7When The Holy Places Lose Their HeartCommentary →
- Shabad 8The Whole Sky Is Your Lamp-Lit WorshipCommentary →
- Shabad 9The Wealth That Never Runs OutCommentary →
- Shabad 10The Immaculate, Boundless TreasureCommentary →
- Shabad 11Cherish The Name Kept Deep WithinCommentary →
- Shabad 12How Duality Clouds The WorldCommentary →
- Shabad 13My Heart Bows To Those Who ServeCommentary →
- Shabad 14Stilling The Restless, Wandering MindCommentary →
- Shabad 15The Wealth That Cannot Travel With YouCommentary →
- Shabad 16The Name Whose Worth Cannot Be CountedCommentary →
- Shabad 17A Beggar at the Door of the GiverCommentary →
- Shabad 18Keep Me in the Company You LoveCommentary →
- Shabad 19When Fear and Doubt Run AwayCommentary →
- Shabad 20Whoever Listens Is Set FreeCommentary →
- Shabad 21How Can I Walk a Path I Cannot SeeCommentary →
- Shabad 22The Song-Bird Crying for a Single DropCommentary →
- Shabad 23Remembrance Is the Boat That CrossesCommentary →
- Shabad 24Hold the Heart-Enchanter WithinCommentary →
- Shabad 25Sing, Learn, and Serve — the Light AwaitsCommentary →
- Shabad 26Read Him, Write Him, Sing Him AcrossCommentary →
- Shabad 27Even the Gods Long for Your NameCommentary →
- Shabad 28All Come to Sing the Sublime WordCommentary →
- Shabad 29The One Who Fulfills Every WishCommentary →
- Shabad 30You Alone Know the Pain Within MeCommentary →
- Shabad 31O Destroyer of Fear, Remover of SufferingCommentary →
- Shabad 32The Fish and the Bee Show Us LoveCommentary →
- Shabad 33Grace Gave Me the Name and Set Me FreeCommentary →
- Shabad 34Since I Met the Holy, My Days Turned BrightCommentary →
- Shabad 35All I Am Belongs to the One Who ListensCommentary →
- Shabad 36Even the Greatest Kings Are Never FullCommentary →
- Shabad 37Nothing We Chase Compares to ThisCommentary →
- Shabad 38The Teacher Showed the Path Through the DarkCommentary →
- Shabad 39Habits That Leave the Heart SmallerCommentary →
- Shabad 40Small Service and a Heart That SingsCommentary →
- Shabad 41The Pull of Illusion Over the Whole WorldCommentary →
- Shabad 42You Cherish Me Every Single MomentCommentary →
- Shabad 43Outward Acts Alone Do Not Reach the HeartCommentary →
- Shabad 44Is There a Friend Who Can Steady My HeartCommentary →
- Shabad 45The One Watches Over Those Who LoveCommentary →
- Shabad 46Now I Hold the One Who HealsCommentary →
- Shabad 47I Have Fallen in Love With the OneCommentary →
- Shabad 48Your Name Is the MedicineCommentary →
- Shabad 49By Myself I Can Do NothingCommentary →
- Shabad 50The Ship That Carries the Weary AcrossCommentary →
- Shabad 51After Long Wandering, I Found the TeacherCommentary →
- Shabad 52Loving What Cannot StayCommentary →
- Shabad 53The Name Is My Work and My WealthCommentary →
- Shabad 54Why Would You Be Afraid?Commentary →
- Shabad 55At Home and Away, I Trust YouCommentary →
- Shabad 56Held Close, Carried AcrossCommentary →
- Shabad 57Wherever I Look, You Are ThereCommentary →
- Shabad 58Come Home in PeaceCommentary →
- Shabad 59Listen, Friends: This Is My PrayerCommentary →
- Shabad 60The Best Thing to Ask ForCommentary →
- Shabad 61Remember the One, Again and AgainCommentary →
- Shabad 62He Is With Me Everywhere I GoCommentary →
- Shabad 63Nectar Fills the HeartCommentary →
- Shabad 64Where Each One LeansCommentary →
- Shabad 65The Real WarriorCommentary →
- Shabad 66Nothing Is Hidden From the One Who Sees InsideCommentary →
- Shabad 67The Gift Written WithinCommentary →
- Shabad 68Eyes Made NewCommentary →
- Shabad 69Fed in Ways We Don't Even SeeCommentary →
- Shabad 70Everything I Have, Gladly GivenCommentary →
- Shabad 71A Gift That Never FadesCommentary →
- Shabad 72Chasing MiragesCommentary →
- Shabad 73Cooled and SoothedCommentary →
- Shabad 74Held Safe, Harm UndoneCommentary →
- Shabad 75A Hand Upon My HeadCommentary →
- Shabad 76Sheltered Through the Hard HoursCommentary →
- Shabad 77The Pool of NectarCommentary →
- Shabad 78All Things Set RightCommentary →
- Shabad 79The One Gift I Ask ForCommentary →
- Shabad 80Asking Only From the SourceCommentary →
- Shabad 81Where Thirst Is QuenchedCommentary →
- Shabad 82Held and Kept SafeCommentary →
- Shabad 83Lift Me From the WellCommentary →
- Shabad 84Peace That Follows You EverywhereCommentary →
- Shabad 85I Bow, I BowCommentary →
- Shabad 86Fed by What Is RealCommentary →
- Shabad 87The Guide's Feet Carry the SoulCommentary →
- Shabad 88A Love Nothing Can BreakCommentary →
- Shabad 89Why Search the ForestCommentary →
- Shabad 90The World Caught in a DreamCommentary →
- Shabad 91The Path That Isn't the Path YetCommentary →
- Shabad 92What Should I Do NowCommentary →
- Shabad 93The Ocean Full of JewelsCommentary →
- Shabad 94Wherever I Look, Only the OneCommentary →
- Shabad 95Born Into the TangleCommentary →
- Shabad 96The True Pilgrimage Is the NameCommentary →
- Shabad 97I Live by Your NameCommentary →
- Shabad 98The Beloved Is Right Beside YouCommentary →
- Shabad 99Grace Lets the Heart SingCommentary →
- Shabad 100Sing in Good CompanyCommentary →
- Shabad 101The Mystery None of the Great Ones Could SolveCommentary →
- Shabad 102The Hours Slip ByCommentary →
- Shabad 103Like Water Poured Into WaterCommentary →
- Shabad 104Even the Bright Heavens Send You BackCommentary →
- Shabad 105Remember, Remember, RememberCommentary →
- Shabad 106Deep Foundations, Tall Palaces, and ThenCommentary →
- Shabad 107Filling the Self With Sweetness, Draining the BitterCommentary →
- Shabad 108As Water Is to the DesertCommentary →
- Shabad 109The Lotuses Bloomed and the Swans Were BornCommentary →
- Shabad 110You Lift Up Whoever Has FallenCommentary →
- Shabad 111None So Kind As YouCommentary →
- Shabad 112My Mind the Bumble-BeeCommentary →
- Shabad 113Your Name Is My WorshipCommentary →
- Shabad 114Do Not Blame the OneCommentary →
- Shabad 115Incense, Lamp, and GheeCommentary →
- Shabad 116The Body Is the TempleCommentary →
- Shabad 117You Arrange EverythingCommentary →