You cannot run from the One, and you are freed only when the One frees you -- so serve it, and your account is cleared, your self made whole.
The Arc
Pauri 0: the One is always with you; where could you run? It alone grants forgiveness. The Rahao (Pauri 1): run instead to the Guru's Sanctuary and be saved. Pauri 2: serve the One and dwell in your own home within, anointed with the oil of praise. Pauri 3: earn the Name's profit and be happy; if grace bestows it, taste the nectar. Pauri 4: keep away from the Name-forgetting thieves. Pauri 5: serve the man-lion One; the account is cleared, and the servant is made perfect, lacking nothing.
Key Vocabulary
inescapable One: always present; there is nowhere to run from it
emancipation as grace: freed only when the One frees you
home within: dwelling in one's own deep home, anointed with praise
made whole: the servant made perfect, not diminished by a particle
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad joins Ik Onkar (the inescapable, omnipresent One) with Gurprasad (freed only when the One frees) and the interior turn -- the home within (philosophy.md). It warns about bad company (the Name-forgetting thieves, the negative of Sat Sangat) and ends in the gift of completeness: the servant made whole by grace.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree Poorbee's devotional warmth frames a shabad about the impossibility of escaping the One and the gift of being made whole. The single direction worth running -- toward the teacher's shelter -- gives the restless soul its one true refuge.
You cannot run from the One, and you are freed only when the One frees you -- so serve it, and your account is cleared, your self made whole.
The Arc
Pauri 0: the One is always with you; where could you run? It alone grants forgiveness. The Rahao (Pauri 1): run instead to the Guru's Sanctuary and be saved. Pauri 2: serve the One and dwell in your own home within, anointed with the oil of praise. Pauri 3: earn the Name's profit and be happy; if grace bestows it, taste the nectar. Pauri 4: keep away from the Name-forgetting thieves. Pauri 5: serve the man-lion One; the account is cleared, and the servant is made perfect, lacking nothing.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad joins Ik Onkar (the inescapable, omnipresent One) with Gurprasad (freed only when the One frees) and the interior turn -- the home within (philosophy.md). It warns about bad company (the Name-forgetting thieves, the negative of Sat Sangat) and ends in the gift of completeness: the servant made whole by grace.
For Raag Gauree
Gauree Poorbee's devotional warmth frames a shabad about the impossibility of escaping the One and the gift of being made whole. The single direction worth running -- toward the teacher's shelter -- gives the restless soul its one true refuge.
Last updated: 2026-06-28