Hold the One in mind, and peace comes to sit in the very place where the ache used to be.
The Arc
Guru Arjan opens his Gond set with a shabad about relief — the felt experience of trouble dissolving and peace moving in.
P0 (v1) — strife melts in the Name; pain leaves and peace takes its seat; fullness comes through good company.
P1 (rahau) — the refrain: remembering carries you across water you could never cross alone; old mistakes wash away.
P2 (v2) — keep the teaching at your center and settle into sahaj, a natural, effortless stillness.
P3 (v3) — one Presence fills every place and knows every heart from within.
P4 (v4) — the light is already inside you; sing together and be carried home.
Key Vocabulary
kal kalays — strife, struggle; dissolved by the Name. sukh keeno thaa-o — peace 'takes a seat' where pain was. aghaa-ay — satisfied, full, needing nothing more. sahj samaadh — natural, effortless stillness (from sahaj). antarjaamee — the inner-knower, aware within every heart. pargaas — the inner light that shines once noticed.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad's spine is the movement from dukh to sukh — not by fighting pain but by letting the Name fill the space until peace simply takes the seat. Its resolution in P4 — the One already abides within — ties it to the project's core lens: grace is not brought in from outside but noticed as already here. The 'ocean of fire' and being 'carried across' recur across Gond as the crossing-image; here they land softly, in the key of comfort.
For Raag Gond
As the first shabad of Guru Arjan's Gond chaupade block, it sets the raag's warm, calling tone — Gond as the sound of a trouble quieting.
Hold the One in mind, and peace comes to sit in the very place where the ache used to be.
The Arc
Guru Arjan opens his Gond set with a shabad about relief — the felt experience of trouble dissolving and peace moving in.
Key Vocabulary
kal kalays — strife, struggle; dissolved by the Name. sukh keeno thaa-o — peace 'takes a seat' where pain was. aghaa-ay — satisfied, full, needing nothing more. sahj samaadh — natural, effortless stillness (from sahaj). antarjaamee — the inner-knower, aware within every heart. pargaas — the inner light that shines once noticed.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The shabad's spine is the movement from dukh to sukh — not by fighting pain but by letting the Name fill the space until peace simply takes the seat. Its resolution in P4 — the One already abides within — ties it to the project's core lens: grace is not brought in from outside but noticed as already here. The 'ocean of fire' and being 'carried across' recur across Gond as the crossing-image; here they land softly, in the key of comfort.
For Raag Gond
As the first shabad of Guru Arjan's Gond chaupade block, it sets the raag's warm, calling tone — Gond as the sound of a trouble quieting.
Last updated: 2026-07-09