Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Everyone, every single being, sits leaning on the hope of you. You live deep inside every heart there is. We are all partners, all sharers in the same family — and there is no one, anywhere, who is outside of you or left out. Nobody is beyond your reach.
This pauri contains one of the most quoted and beloved lines in all of Sikh thought: sabhe saajheevaal sadaain — "all are called partners, sharers; all hold an equal stake." It is a vision of total inclusion. Building on the saajhaa (shared father) of the previous verse, it declares that since one source dwells in all, all are co-sharers in life and in grace — a foundation for human equality and shared belonging that the Sikh tradition has carried into the world.
The reasoning is rooted in Ik Onkar, oneness. Ghat ghat antar toonhai vuthaa — "you dwell within each and every heart." If the same presence lives in everyone, then no one can be a stranger, an outsider, or an enemy at the deepest level. And the closing line seals it: toon kisai na diseh baaharaa — "you are seen to be outside of no one." There is no being beyond the divine, no one excluded, no one outside the circle. None are baaharaa — outside.
This is the social heart of Ik Onkar: not just an idea about God but a way to live. If there is only oneness — no real separation between self and others — then sabhe saajheevaal, everyone is family, everyone shares. The line sabh ko aasai teri baithaa ("all sit in hope of you") completes the picture: every being, knowingly or not, leans on the same source. The vast, indwelling, all-including One makes equality not a policy but a fact of existence.
If the same light really lives inside every single person — including strangers and people you don't like — what would it mean to treat everyone as "family"?
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