161 Shabads · 1686 Verses
Raag Maaroo
The Commentary
This composition opens Raag Maaroo. A shalok of nearness (dust of the feet, the One ever-present) gives way to a shabad: those who wake in the quiet hours are welcomed home like honored guests; an honest, empty-handed turning back; the thinness of chasing tastes; the recognition that the only real separation is from the One; and the closing comfort that even the far-apart may be reunited.
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Guru Nanak (Mehl 1)
- Shabad 1The Dust of Your Feet, and You Ever Near
- Shabad 2Born With Gifts, and How We Forget Them
- Shabad 3Your Deeds Write the Story You Live
- Shabad 4The Lotus That Stays Pure in Muddy Water
- Shabad 5Countless Hearts Made New at the Threshold
- Shabad 6Glad to Belong, Linked Where You Place Me
- Shabad 7When Love Makes You Look Strange to Others
- Shabad 8A Treasure That Fills Everything, Everywhere
- Shabad 9Steadying the Restless Fish of the Mind
- Shabad 10The Jewel Within That Steadies the Mind
- Shabad 11The One Truly Joined Stays Unstained
- Shabad 12Pierced by the Sweet Arrow of Love
- Shabad 62The Search Ends in the One
- Shabad 63A Boat on a Wide, Wide Sea
- Shabad 64Awe That Melts All Fear
- Shabad 65Living the Truth Has Its Own Sweetness
- Shabad 66Pride Slips Away by Itself
- Shabad 67When It Is Time to Move On
- Shabad 69Cared For Even Before Birth
- Shabad 70A Divided Heart Keeps Wandering
- Shabad 71One Bond That Time Cannot Untie
- Shabad 72I Call No One Foolish, No One Clever
- Shabad 82The Only Real One, Who Holds All Things
- Shabad 83You Hold Up the Earth and the Sky
- Shabad 84My Beloved Is Right Here in My Own Heart
- Shabad 85Before Time Began, You Already Were
- Shabad 86One Light Fills the Three Worlds
- Shabad 87Maker, Teacher, and Servant, All at Once
- Shabad 88Before Anything, Only the One in the Deep Quiet
- Shabad 89No Friend Like the One Who Gave Me Everything
- Shabad 90The Unseen One, Always Right Beside You
- Shabad 91Come Home to Yourself, O Restless Mind
- Shabad 92Safe Inside the Shelter of the Merciful One
- Shabad 93The Maker Watches Over the World With Care
- Shabad 94The Fortress Within the Body
- Shabad 95Sweet On My Tongue
- Shabad 96Before Anything, the One
- Shabad 97The Fortress Made of Air, Water, and Warmth
- Shabad 98From the Deep Stillness
- Shabad 99Wherever I Look, the Kind One Is There
- Shabad 100A Wealth No One Can Steal
- Shabad 101Die While Living, and Cross
- Shabad 102Set Down the Heavy Load and Go Free
- Shabad 103Wondrous Making Power
Guru Amar Das (Mehl 3)
- Shabad 13One King in Every Village, Every Place Holy
- Shabad 14Coming Home to the Self Within
- Shabad 15A Fresh Start, and a Place to Stand
- Shabad 16The Rare Company That Makes You Shine
- Shabad 17The One Who Turns Desert to Oasis, Rust to Gold
- Shabad 73Only the One in Love Knows This Ache
- Shabad 104Effortlessly He Made the Whole Wide World
- Shabad 105The One Hiding in Plain Sight Everywhere
- Shabad 106One Song Running Through Every Age
- Shabad 107Everyone Who Arrives Also Journeys On
- Shabad 108Praising the One Too Deep to Fathom
- Shabad 109Serving the One Thing That Stays
- Shabad 110The Throne of Truth Within
- Shabad 111The Hidden One in Everything
- Shabad 112Everyone Rests in Your Shelter
- Shabad 113Serving the Maker of All
- Shabad 114Fortunate Are the Listening Hearts
- Shabad 115Serving the Boundless One
- Shabad 116The One Who Made Everyone Different
- Shabad 117The One Unchanging, Forever True
- Shabad 118The Inner Sound Beyond the Books
- Shabad 119The Universe Shaped by the Flow
- Shabad 120The Giver from the Very Beginning
- Shabad 121Before Time, Only You Knew
- Shabad 122The Giver Who Needs Nothing
- Shabad 123Peace in the Flow
- Shabad 124The Word That Turns You to Gold
- Shabad 125The Formless One Makes a World of Forms
- Shabad 126Beyond Reach, Yet Met in the Word
- Shabad 127Gather Me With Those Who Love You
- Shabad 144Virtue Priced Cheap or Priceless, Depending on the Buyer
Guru Ram Das (Mehl 4)
- Shabad 18The Ones Who Reached and Were Received
- Shabad 19Even the Silent Sages Sing
- Shabad 20A Treasure to Carry Everywhere
- Shabad 21Asking the Way to the Treasure
- Shabad 22The Story That Settles in the Heart
- Shabad 23The Whole Self Turns Green
- Shabad 24An Overflowing Treasure
- Shabad 25The Wealth That Travels With You
- Shabad 128The One Who Sets Everything Right
- Shabad 129The Only Giver
Guru Arjan (Mehl 5)
- Shabad 26Everything Stands in Awe
- Shabad 27So Many Already Carried Home
- Shabad 28Running After What Will Not Last
- Shabad 29Where Does the Name Live? Where Does Ego?
- Shabad 30Loading the One Jewel for the Journey
- Shabad 31The Struggle Ended, and I Rested
- Shabad 32Why Chase What Slips Away?
- Shabad 33Nothing Is Hidden From the One Who Knows Within
- Shabad 34He Is Beginning, Middle, and End
- Shabad 35Why Forget the Giver of Life?
- Shabad 36The One Is Always With You
- Shabad 37In This Way You Cross Over
- Shabad 38I Stopped Searching Outside
- Shabad 39The Seed Planted Out of Season
- Shabad 40The Egg of Doubt Bursts Open
- Shabad 41Words Without Deeds
- Shabad 42Richer Than a King
- Shabad 43Everything From One Word
- Shabad 44Mine, Mine, and Then It's Gone
- Shabad 45No One Turned Away Empty
- Shabad 46Why Put On a Show?
- Shabad 47My Master Is Great, I Am Small
- Shabad 48Lifter of the Fallen
- Shabad 49The Saints Are Full
- Shabad 50Let Go of Clever Tricks
- Shabad 51Things That Pass Away
- Shabad 52Always Beside You
- Shabad 53In Every Moment
- Shabad 54The Fever Departs
- Shabad 55Held Before You Were Born
- Shabad 56The Raft in the Deep Water
- Shabad 57Cupped Hands: Woven Together
- Shabad 58The One Help That Stays
- Shabad 68Running Away Is Not the Answer
- Shabad 74This Rare and Precious Human Life
- Shabad 75Sheltered, and Singing the Sweet Name
- Shabad 76The Tree That Bears the Blade Without Anger
- Shabad 77Let the Moonlight of the Name Fill Your Mind
- Shabad 78Come and Live in the Home of My Heart
- Shabad 79The Life That Truly Bears Fruit
- Shabad 80Free From Both Too Much and Too Little
- Shabad 81The Tree Where All Travelers Meet
- Shabad 130The One Who Holds the World Up
- Shabad 131Two Together for a While
- Shabad 132The Blissful One Above All
- Shabad 133The Guru Holds All the Sacred
- Shabad 134The Formless One Living Inside Everything
- Shabad 135Whatever I See Is You
- Shabad 136Don't Be Fooled by the Surface
- Shabad 137All Creation Remembers
- Shabad 138The Great Giver, and We Who Ask
- Shabad 139Everything Is Yours
- Shabad 140Every Name People Have Sung
- Shabad 141The Traveler's Road
- Shabad 142The Shelter Above All
- Shabad 143The Name, Loveliest in the World
- Shabad 145Everything I Am, Given Gladly
Guru Tegh Bahadur (Mehl 9)
Kabir Ji
- Shabad 146What Has Caught Your Mind?
- Shabad 147Home and Forest, the Same
- Shabad 148When the Treasure Is Within
- Shabad 149A Drop Back in the Ocean
- Shabad 150You Are Already in Everything
- Shabad 151Even the Golden Fortress Is Left Behind
- Shabad 152The Village of the Body
- Shabad 153Awe Opens the Door
- Shabad 154The One the Heart Chooses
- Shabad 155The Drum in the Sky
- Shabad 156Sheltered, and Set Free
- Shabad 157Don't Sleep Through It
- Shabad 159Remember, While There's Time