Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Nobody can find the edge of the real One — it has no end you could ever reach. It fills every place and every gap between places; there's no corner without it. So Nanak says: keep the real One in your heart, always. It already knows everything that goes on inside you, more intimately than you know yourself.
The shabad of sach closes by holding two truths together — and both are comforting. First: "sachay ant na jaanai ko-ee" — no one can find the limit of the True One. It is endless, boundless. You will never reach the edge of it, never use it up, never fully map it. Second, in the very same breath: "thaan thanantar sachaa so-ee" — that same boundless One is in every place and every in-between space. The infinite is not far away in the heavens; it's in the gap between two breaths, in the space between you and the person next to you, in the smallest crack of the ordinary world. This is Ik Onkar: the One so vast it has no edge, and so present it has no absence.
Then comes the most intimate phrase in the whole shabad: "antarjaamee" — the inner-knower, the one who reads hearts. The boundless One that fills all of space is also the One who knows the inside of you completely. Think about what that means: you are never truly misunderstood, never truly alone with your secret thoughts, never invisible. The One that holds the galaxies also holds your private fears and hopes, and knows them tenderly. For a child who sometimes feels nobody really gets them, this is profound: there is an awareness that knows you all the way through, and stays.
So the instruction "sach dhi-aa-ee-ai sad hee" — remember the real One always — is not a burden. It's an invitation to live in relationship with the only thing that is both infinite and knows you by heart. The whole shabad has been redefining what's real: the true temple, the true greatness, the true love, and now the true companion who is everywhere and knows everything. To remember sach always is simply to stay close to what was never going to leave you.
How does it feel to imagine there's an awareness that knows everything inside you — and stays anyway? Comforting, uncomfortable, both? Why?
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