Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
I have looked everywhere, and there is no place empty of the One — no corner where it is not.
Those who meet the teaching find the real point of being alive.
A two-line Shalok in an old, earthy dialect (dithrho habh thaa-ay — "I have seen every place"). The first line is a report from experience, not theory: someone who has genuinely looked finds the One is nowhere absent. Oon na kaa-ee jaa-ay — "not one spot is missing it." The second line names the payoff of meeting the satgur (the true teacher, the true teaching): su-aa-o, the object, the flavor, the whole point of life. It is a quiet, confident claim — that a life can have a real center, a reason, and that this is discovered by encounter, not invented by effort.
If the One is present in every single place, does that change how you'd treat any ordinary spot — a hallway, a bus, your own room?
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