Of every gift I could ask for, I ask only one — to keep Your Name in my heart; and in that one gift, every real longing is already met.
The Arc
The shabad opens on a single request that turns out to contain all others: keep the Name, and every longing that matters is quietly fulfilled. The first verse asks for the Name to live in the heart and for good company, so the fire of sorrow cannot take hold; the close widens the ask across a whole lifetime — childhood, youth, middle age, old age — and rests in a love that ends the tiring circle of coming and going.
Key Vocabulary
ik daan: the one gift
sagal manorath: all longings, all that the heart reaches for
santan kaa sang: the company of the good and true
sog agan: the fire of sorrow
rang lagaa: colored, dyed through with love
Themes and Cross-Connections
The single request that holds all requests is a recurring Gurbani move — the many wishes of the mind collapsing into one. It connects to the project's Naam lens: the Name is not a wish among wishes but the ground in which every real wish is already answered. The birth-and-death close is handled as homecoming, consistent with the project's gentle framing of the cycle.
For Raag Dhanaasaree
Dhanaasaree, the raag of longing, here turns longing itself into a single clean request — the ache directed not at a hundred things but at the one that quietly holds them all.
Of every gift I could ask for, I ask only one — to keep Your Name in my heart; and in that one gift, every real longing is already met.
The Arc
The shabad opens on a single request that turns out to contain all others: keep the Name, and every longing that matters is quietly fulfilled. The first verse asks for the Name to live in the heart and for good company, so the fire of sorrow cannot take hold; the close widens the ask across a whole lifetime — childhood, youth, middle age, old age — and rests in a love that ends the tiring circle of coming and going.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The single request that holds all requests is a recurring Gurbani move — the many wishes of the mind collapsing into one. It connects to the project's Naam lens: the Name is not a wish among wishes but the ground in which every real wish is already answered. The birth-and-death close is handled as homecoming, consistent with the project's gentle framing of the cycle.
For Raag Dhanaasaree
Dhanaasaree, the raag of longing, here turns longing itself into a single clean request — the ache directed not at a hundred things but at the one that quietly holds them all.
Last updated: 2026-07-08