Chant the teacher's name like a heartbeat — the teaching and the One are a single reality, and its gift no one can cancel.
The Arc
Verse 1 (P0): chant Guru, Guru, Guru; lean on the teaching day and night — its gift cannot be erased.
The Rahau (P1): the teacher and the One are one; whatever pleases the One is welcome.
Verse 2 (P2): a heart fastened to the teaching sees its pains and doubts run off.
Verse 3 (P3): the teacher's servant is uplifted, whole, unbroken by pain, known everywhere.
Verse 4 (P4): the teaching's glory is beyond words; a heart of full destiny is drawn to it.
Key Vocabulary
guroo guroo gur — the tripled name, a rhythm of remembrance.
tayk — support to lean on.
kurbaan — a sacrifice, given wholly, in love.
dah dis — the ten directions; everywhere.
poorai bhaag — full destiny; here the grace that turns a heart toward the teaching.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad's boldest line — gur parmaysar ayko jaan, know the Guru and the One as one — is the theological hinge of the whole Guru-cluster: the teaching is not separate from what it points to. Acceptance of 'whatever pleases the One' (jo tis bhaavai so parvaan) is Mannai — inner alignment with the flow of existence, living from the truth rather than merely agreeing with it.
For Raag Gond
The tripled guroo guroo gur rides Gond's steady pulse like a drum; the raag's calling warmth turns the chant into invitation.
Chant the teacher's name like a heartbeat — the teaching and the One are a single reality, and its gift no one can cancel.
The Arc
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad's boldest line — gur parmaysar ayko jaan, know the Guru and the One as one — is the theological hinge of the whole Guru-cluster: the teaching is not separate from what it points to. Acceptance of 'whatever pleases the One' (jo tis bhaavai so parvaan) is Mannai — inner alignment with the flow of existence, living from the truth rather than merely agreeing with it.
For Raag Gond
The tripled guroo guroo gur rides Gond's steady pulse like a drum; the raag's calling warmth turns the chant into invitation.
Last updated: 2026-07-09