Sikhism·Raag Dhanaasaree·Shabad 31
Verse 4 of 5

No Color, No Shape, Yet Filling Everything

ਤੇਰਾ ਵਰਨੁ ਨ ਜਾਪੈ ਰੂਪੁ ਨ ਲਖੀਐ ਤੇਰੀ ਕੁਦਰਤਿ ਕਉਨੁ ਬੀਚਾਰੇ ॥
tayraa varan na jaapai roop na lakhee-ai tayree kudrat ka-un beechaaray.
Your color is not known, and Your form is not seen; who can contemplate Your Almighty Creative Power?
ਜਲਿ ਥਲਿ ਮਹੀਅਲਿ ਰਵਿਆ ਸ੍ਰਬ ਠਾਈ ਅਗਮ ਰੂਪ ਗਿਰਧਾਰੇ ॥੩॥
jal thal mahee-al ravi-aa sarab thaa-ee agam roop girDhaaray. ||3||
You are contained in the water, the land and the sky, everywhere, O Lord of unfathomable form, Holder of the mountain. ||3||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

No one knows Your color; no one has seen Your shape; who could ever measure the wonder of all You make?

You fill the water, the land, and the sky — You are everywhere at once, holding up even the mountains.

The One no eye can capture is the very One filling everything you can see.
The deeper layer

No one can see the One's color or shape, and yet the One fills everything.

Tayraa varan na jaapai — Your color cannot be known. Roop na lakhee-ai — Your form cannot be seen. Yet this same unseen One is jal thal mahee-al ravi-aa, present in water, land, and sky.

It is like the air in a room. You cannot see it, but it fills every corner.

This is the wonder of Ik Onkar, the One Creator. The One is beyond every form, and inside every form, at the same time.

A Question to Sit With

Can you think of something real that you cannot see but know is there, like the wind or gravity?

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