Whoever comes for shelter is kept safe; even death cannot touch them there.
The Arc
Come to the One for shelter, and you are kept safe. No one is as great as the One. No one ever was, and no one ever will be. Choose to stay there. Let the One keep you in the One's own way. The One feeds and cherishes all who come, and death cannot touch them. That shelter never shrinks and never goes away. Leave it for the pull of "two," and you go round and round. Inside it, pain and hunger rest. Keep praising the Naam, and melt into the True Word, like a drop into the sea. At the centre, the Rahao: stay in the One's shelter always, and trust the One to keep you.
Key Vocabulary
sarnaa-ee — sanctuary, shelter, refuge — the shabad's keyword.
partipaal — to cherish and sustain, as a parent feeds a child.
jamkaal — the Messenger of Death, who cannot touch the sheltered.
doojai bhaa-ay — the love of duality, of being separate.
samaahi — merging, dissolving into the True Word.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Sarnaa-ee anchors every pauri. The drop-into-ocean close (samaahi) is a recurring image for the end of separation, tying this shabad to the Ik Onkar vision of oneness.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A dawn hymn of safety — the kind of steadiness a waking heart reaches for before facing the day.
Hukumnama
Subject: Stay in the One's shelter always Preview: a shelter that never shrinks, a parent feeding a child, a wheel going round, a drop settling into the sea.
Today: Come to the One for shelter, and you are kept safe. No one is as great as the One. No one ever was, and no one ever will be. Choose to stay there. Let the One keep you in the One's own way. The One feeds and cherishes all who come, and death cannot touch them. That shelter never shrinks and never goes away. Leave it for the pull of "two," and you go round and round. Inside it, pain and hunger rest. Keep praising the Naam, and melt into the True Word, like a drop into the sea.
Stay in the One's shelter always, and trust the One to keep you.
For today: When you feel unsure today, picture yourself in the One's shelter and breathe slowly.
Whoever comes for shelter is kept safe; even death cannot touch them there.
The Arc
Come to the One for shelter, and you are kept safe. No one is as great as the One. No one ever was, and no one ever will be. Choose to stay there. Let the One keep you in the One's own way. The One feeds and cherishes all who come, and death cannot touch them. That shelter never shrinks and never goes away. Leave it for the pull of "two," and you go round and round. Inside it, pain and hunger rest. Keep praising the Naam, and melt into the True Word, like a drop into the sea. At the centre, the Rahao: stay in the One's shelter always, and trust the One to keep you.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Sarnaa-ee anchors every pauri. The drop-into-ocean close (samaahi) is a recurring image for the end of separation, tying this shabad to the Ik Onkar vision of oneness.
For Raag Prabhaatee
A dawn hymn of safety — the kind of steadiness a waking heart reaches for before facing the day.
Hukumnama
Subject: Stay in the One's shelter always Preview: a shelter that never shrinks, a parent feeding a child, a wheel going round, a drop settling into the sea.
Today: Come to the One for shelter, and you are kept safe. No one is as great as the One. No one ever was, and no one ever will be. Choose to stay there. Let the One keep you in the One's own way. The One feeds and cherishes all who come, and death cannot touch them. That shelter never shrinks and never goes away. Leave it for the pull of "two," and you go round and round. Inside it, pain and hunger rest. Keep praising the Naam, and melt into the True Word, like a drop into the sea.
Stay in the One's shelter always, and trust the One to keep you.
For today: When you feel unsure today, picture yourself in the One's shelter and breathe slowly.