Sikhism·Raag Jaitsree·Shabad 15
Verse 3 of 3

Everything, Even the Gaps Between, Belongs to the One

ਥਾਨਿ ਥਨੰਤਰਿ ਸਭਨੀ ਜਾਈ ਜੋ ਦੀਸੈ ਸੋ ਤੇਰਾ ॥
thaan thanantar sabhnee jaa-ee jo deesai so tayraa.
In all the spaces and interspaces, everywhere, whatever we see is Yours.
ਸੰਤਸੰਗਿ ਪਾਵੈ ਜੋ ਨਾਨਕ ਤਿਸੁ ਬਹੁਰਿ ਨ ਹੋਈ ਹੈ ਫੇਰਾ ॥੨॥੩॥੪॥
satsang paavai jo naanak tis bahur na ho-ee hai fayraa. ||2||3||4||
One who finds the Society of the Saints, O Nanak, is not consigned to reincarnation again. ||2||3||4||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

In all the spaces and the gaps between them, everywhere, whatever we see is yours.

The one who finds the company of the good, Nanak, is not thrown back into the circling again.

Everything you can see — and even the empty gaps between things — belongs to the One; there's no corner it doesn't fill. And the door into that vastness is simply good company.
The deeper layer

"In all the spaces and interspaces... whatever we see is Yours" — the whole visible world, and even the gaps between things, belong to the One (Ik Onkar as total pervasion). There is nothing outside it, no empty corner it doesn't fill. And the practical hinge, once more: the one who finds Sat Sangat is freed from "reincarnation" — from the restless circling of a life that never finds its rest. Guru Arjan keeps landing the vast vision (the One filling all spaces) on the humble practice (find the good company). The infinite is everywhere; the door into it is the Sangat. The shabad that began "I seek my Friend" ends having found where the Friend is: everywhere, and especially in the good company.

A Question to Sit With

If everything and even the spaces between belong to the One, is there anywhere truly empty of it?

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