Sikhism·Raag Goojaree·Shabad 115
Verse 4 of 4

It All Resolves: Drop the Doubts, Rest on the One

ਅਗਨਤ ਅਪਾਰੁ ਅਲਖ ਨਿਰੰਜਨ ਜਿਹ ਸਭ ਜਗੁ ਭਰਮਾਇਓ ॥
agnat apaar alakh niranjan jih sabh jag bharmaa-i-o.
Incalculable, infinite, incomprehensible and immaculate is He, who has misled the entire world.
ਸਗਲ ਭਰਮ ਤਜਿ ਨਾਨਕ ਪ੍ਰਾਣੀ ਚਰਨਿ ਤਾਹਿ ਚਿਤੁ ਲਾਇਓ ॥੩॥੧॥੨॥
sagal bharam taj naanak paraanee charan taahi chit laa-i-o. ||3||1||2||
Cast off all your doubts; prays Nanak, O mortal, focus your consciousness on His Feet. ||3||1||2||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

Beyond counting, endless, past understanding, spotless — the One that has led the whole world on.

So cast off all your doubts; Nanak prays, fix your attention on its feet.

After every meditation on the unknowable and immense, it all resolves into one humble act: drop the doubts, and rest your attention on the One.
The deeper layer

The final verse of the whole Goojaree section gathers the raag's great themes into one closing counsel. The One is "incalculable, infinite, incomprehensible and immaculate" — beyond all grasp. And the very last instruction is the simplest possible: "Cast off all your doubts... focus your consciousness on His Feet." After every meditation on the unknowable, the immense, the overturning, the play — the practical upshot is a child's move: drop the doubting, and rest your attention on the One. The whole vast teaching resolves into a single, humble act of trust.

A Question to Sit With

If you set down your doubts and simply rested your attention on the good, what would change?

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