Sikhism·Raag Jaitsree·Shabad 31
Verse 2 of 60

Point Your Whole Self One Way, Toward the Good

ਪੇਖਨ ਸੁਨਨ ਸੁਨਾਵਨੋ ਮਨ ਮਹਿ ਦ੍ਰਿੜੀਐ ਸਾਚੁ ॥
paykhan sunan sunaavano man meh darirh-ee-ai saach.
See, hear, speak and implant the True Lord within your mind.
ਪੂਰਿ ਰਹਿਓ ਸਰਬਤ੍ਰ ਮੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਹਰਿ ਰੰਗਿ ਰਾਚੁ ॥੨॥
poor rahi-o sarbatar mai naanak har rang raach. ||2||
He is all-pervading, permeating everywhere; O Nanak, be absorbed in the Lord's Love. ||2||

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

See, hear, speak, and plant the real One in your mind.

It fills everything, everywhere; Nanak, be absorbed in its love.

Point your whole self one way — what you look at, listen to, talk about, and hold deep in your mind — all toward the good. That's not devotion in one corner; it's the whole self together.
The deeper layer

A verse about the whole self turned one direction: see, hear, speak, and plant the One within. Every faculty — eyes, ears, tongue, and the deep ground of the mind — pointed at the same reality. This is integration: not devotion squeezed into one corner of life while the rest wanders, but the entire self oriented together. And it fills everything everywhere, so wherever the senses turn, there it is to be seen, heard, spoken. The instruction is simple and total: let your whole attention be absorbed in the one thing that is everywhere anyway.

A Question to Sit With

Do the things you look at, listen to, and talk about all point the same direction? What would it be like if they did?

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