Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Before we count a single day, here is the one thing worth knowing: the One fills the water, the land, and the sky. There is no corner where the Oneness is not.
It shows up in endless shapes — in oceans and hills, in you and in the person beside you — but it is all the same One, spread out into everything.
This is the opening Shalok of the Thittee — the "lunar-days" poem. Over its verses it will walk through the days of the moon's cycle, one by one. But notice how it begins: not with a special day, but with the One who is everywhere on every day. Jal thal maheeal — water, land, sky — is a favorite phrase for "absolutely everywhere." Anik bhaant means "in countless ways," and aikankaar is the One-and-only diffused into the many. Setting this first is the whole key to the poem: the days will change, the moon will wax and wane, but the Oneness underneath never comes and goes.
If the same Oneness is in the sky, the sea, and in you, does it make you feel less alone?
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