One Oneness, spread through everything, and everyone who holds it belongs to one family.
The Arc
The One has spread out into everything you see. Welcome that One in: the same One fills it all. Remember that One, and you stand second to none. Picture a cloth-dyer people called untouchable. He wrote the praises of the One, and his name now stands beside the oldest sages. Picture a boy from a Muslim family that kept its own festivals. That boy was Kabir, and the whole world knows him. Picture a family that still carries away dead cattle around Banaras. Their son is Ravidas, and the strictest priests bow to him. At the centre, the Rahao: the One has become many and fills everything.
Key Vocabulary
ek hee ek anek ho-ay — the One alone becoming many; Oneness spread as all things.
chheepaa — an "untouchable" cloth-dyer, set beside the great sages.
parsidh kabeeraa — Kabir, renowned through the worlds, risen from a humble home.
daasaan daasaa — servant of the servants; the lowest title, the highest honor.
Themes and Cross-Connections
A companion roll-call to the shabad before it, and kin to the whole Bhagat block's caste-leveling. The rahau's One-becoming-many is Raag Malaar's immanence stated bare. Naming Kabir's Muslim family beside Hindu sages shows holiness rising from every community.
For Raag Malaar
The One who fills all things lifts the shut-out from every background, until the proud bow — the raag's longing resolving into recognition and honor.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One fills everything you see Preview: A cloth-dyer beside the old sages, a weaver's son famous everywhere, priests bowing to a leather-worker.
Today: The One has spread out into everything you see. Welcome that One in: the same One fills it all. Remember that One, and you stand second to none. Picture a cloth-dyer people called untouchable. He wrote the praises of the One, and his name now stands beside the oldest sages. Picture a boy from a Muslim family that kept its own festivals. That boy was Kabir, and the whole world knows him. Picture a family that still carries away dead cattle around Banaras. Their son is Ravidas, and the strictest priests bow to him.
The One alone has become many and fills everything you see.
For today: Greet someone from a different background today as family, because the same One fills you both.
One Oneness, spread through everything, and everyone who holds it belongs to one family.
The Arc
The One has spread out into everything you see. Welcome that One in: the same One fills it all. Remember that One, and you stand second to none. Picture a cloth-dyer people called untouchable. He wrote the praises of the One, and his name now stands beside the oldest sages. Picture a boy from a Muslim family that kept its own festivals. That boy was Kabir, and the whole world knows him. Picture a family that still carries away dead cattle around Banaras. Their son is Ravidas, and the strictest priests bow to him. At the centre, the Rahao: the One has become many and fills everything.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
A companion roll-call to the shabad before it, and kin to the whole Bhagat block's caste-leveling. The rahau's One-becoming-many is Raag Malaar's immanence stated bare. Naming Kabir's Muslim family beside Hindu sages shows holiness rising from every community.
For Raag Malaar
The One who fills all things lifts the shut-out from every background, until the proud bow — the raag's longing resolving into recognition and honor.
Hukumnama
Subject: The One fills everything you see Preview: A cloth-dyer beside the old sages, a weaver's son famous everywhere, priests bowing to a leather-worker.
Today: The One has spread out into everything you see. Welcome that One in: the same One fills it all. Remember that One, and you stand second to none. Picture a cloth-dyer people called untouchable. He wrote the praises of the One, and his name now stands beside the oldest sages. Picture a boy from a Muslim family that kept its own festivals. That boy was Kabir, and the whole world knows him. Picture a family that still carries away dead cattle around Banaras. Their son is Ravidas, and the strictest priests bow to him.
The One alone has become many and fills everything you see.
For today: Greet someone from a different background today as family, because the same One fills you both.