102 Shabads · 705 Verses
Raag Maajh
The Commentary
The Rahao (Pauri 0) sets the whole tone: the divine is named as the seeker's own mind, body, and breath, yet she still aches and begs to meet someone awake who can point her toward the Beloved. Pauri 1 answers the cry — she has searched herself thoroughly, but the path opens only in the Sat Sangat, the company where the Lord already abides. Pauri 2 deepens into trust: the Guru becomes protector, mother and father, and the heart-lotus blossoms when the Guru's water reaches it. Pauri 3 returns to longing as the closing note — sleepless with separation-pain, the seeker prays for mercy and ends in blossoming joy. The shabad thus moves from hunger, to the discovery of where to look, to surrender, and back to the ache that is itself love straining toward union.
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Guru Ram Das (Mehl 4)
- Shabad 1The One You Ache For Is Your Own Breath
- Shabad 2Sing Across the Ocean and It Grows Swimmable
- Shabad 3Hunger Is the Appetite That Carries You
- Shabad 4Real Understanding Arrives With a Taste
- Shabad 5In the Right Company, the Infinite Comes Down
- Shabad 6Give Yourself to Whoever Leads You Home
- Shabad 7The Rain-Bird Will Drink Only One Drop
- Shabad 82Beyond All Reach, Yet Inside All Things
- Shabad 90Let the Teaching Be Your Mother, Contentment Your Father
- Shabad 91Let Goodness Be Your Jewelry
- Shabad 92The Guru's Gift Is Not Information but New Sight
- Shabad 93Your Longing Is the One Longing for Itself
- Shabad 94Your Longing Is a Seed the Beloved Planted
- Shabad 95The Temple Is Your Own Mind
Guru Arjan (Mehl 5)
- Shabad 8The Unstruck Music Heard Only in Stillness
- Shabad 9The Beloved Adorns the Soul With His Own Love
- Shabad 10Beyond All Form, Yet Within Every Form
- Shabad 11Beyond Reach, Yet Tender to the Smallest
- Shabad 12When All Is the Beloved, Surrender Becomes Wonder
- Shabad 13Suffering Begins the Moment We Forget We're Held
- Shabad 14Your Darling and the Infinite at Once
- Shabad 15One Meeting Carries You Across in a Glance
- Shabad 16Beg for the Dust Beneath Awakened Feet
- Shabad 17The Wisest Request: Let Me Never Forget You
- Shabad 18The Highest Praise Is Living in Harmony
- Shabad 19The Thirst and the Water Are Not Two
- Shabad 20The Only Sweetness That Never Turns Bitter
- Shabad 21Hold the Source and Stop Chasing Prizes
- Shabad 22Let Remembrance Run Through Everything
- Shabad 23Woven Into the Servant Like Threads of Cloth
- Shabad 24Everything You Seek Is in Your Own Home
- Shabad 25Love All Who Carry the Beloved
- Shabad 26The Bubble Is Made of the Same Water
- Shabad 27A Life Counted by Its Singing
- Shabad 28The Word Falls Like Rain on the Mind's Fire
- Shabad 29Father, Mother, Family, and Nothing to Fear
- Shabad 30Not Something You Have but What You Live By
- Shabad 31Too Great to Grasp, but You Can Hold On
- Shabad 32The Rain of Grace Falls in Its Own Time
- Shabad 33We Are Freed Singing Toward the One Together
- Shabad 34Grace Arrives Gentlest Toward the Smallest
- Shabad 35A Bare Room Where Love Is Awake
- Shabad 36Crowd Out Your Worries With What You Love
- Shabad 37When Grace Comes, All That Lives Drinks at Once
- Shabad 38Everything You Call Yours Was Only Loaned
- Shabad 39Grace Rains in All Ten Directions at Once
- Shabad 40Peace Settles Once You Stop Stirring the Water
- Shabad 41Let In Something Better and Sorrow Loses Its Home
- Shabad 42The Real Temple Needs No Dome
- Shabad 43Remembering Is What Makes the Seconds Count
- Shabad 44Wherever You Are Going, the One Is Already There
- Shabad 45Real Love Doesn't Schedule Its Remembering
- Shabad 46Laziness Is Disconnection in Disguise
- Shabad 47The Wise Are Those for Whom Reality Turned Sweet
- Shabad 48Stake Your Life on What Fades, and You Fade
- Shabad 83You Already Carry the Jewel; Life Unveils It
- Shabad 84Every Category We Rank By, About to Dissolve
- Shabad 85Rest Your Security on the One Who Never Perishes
- Shabad 86Pack the Name as the Soul's One Provision
- Shabad 87Keeping the One in Mind Steadies the Restless
- Shabad 88The Distance Was Self-Made, and You Can Stop
- Shabad 96The First Thing to Know Is His Tenderness
- Shabad 97Pray Only This: Never to Forget the One
- Shabad 98Wear Your Faith as a Banner, Not a Secret
- Shabad 99Hold the Name and the Knots Loosen on Their Own
- Shabad 100Tuned to the One, Even the Homeless Find a Home
- Shabad 102The Infinite Has No Edge to Arrive At
Guru Nanak (Mehl 1)
Guru Amar Das (Mehl 3)
- Shabad 50Service Empties the Ego; the Word Dissolves It
- Shabad 51You Become Whatever You Praise; So, Praise the Boundless
- Shabad 52The One Is Not Far, Only Hidden
- Shabad 53Let the Fearful Me Dissolve, and Death Has Nothing
- Shabad 54The Treasure Was Placed Inside You From the Start
- Shabad 55So Close He Delights Through Your Own Heart
- Shabad 56The Sweetest Thing Is Here, Freely Offered
- Shabad 57Love Is a Dye, Not a Coat of Paint
- Shabad 58The One Is a Tree Always Giving Its Fruit
- Shabad 59Let Go of the Small Self and Gain Everything
- Shabad 60Surrounded by the One Is Not Yet Seeing It
- Shabad 61Truth Is the Material of Your Daily Life
- Shabad 62The Word That Sang Creation Dissolves the Ego
- Shabad 63You Cannot Think to the Infinite, but You Can Love
- Shabad 64Fill the Heart With the Name; No Room for Mine
- Shabad 65The Rare Ones Simply Turned Their Cup Upright
- Shabad 66Aligned With Truth, Serving Is as Natural as Breath
- Shabad 67All You See Is Costume; the Wearer Never Changes
- Shabad 68The Dirt Is Only on the Lampshade
- Shabad 69Become the Swan That Sips Only the Real
- Shabad 70Peace Is Given at the Source, Not Arranged
- Shabad 71In the True Court, Only Inner Finery Counts
- Shabad 72The Guru Only Wipes the Soot Off the Glass
- Shabad 73Your Body Is a Cave, the Ego Its Only Block
- Shabad 74Death Seeks the I the Gurmukh Already Released
- Shabad 75One Light in All; Even Separateness He Wove
- Shabad 76The One Who Fills All Was Found Nearest of All
- Shabad 77He Merges You Into His Own Goodness
- Shabad 78Fully in the World, Yet Unhooked Like the Lotus
- Shabad 79Know Everything and Still Never Meet the One
- Shabad 80Knowing This, the Soul Carries a Lineage Home
- Shabad 81Wake Into the Fourth State Beneath the Threads