The One is the maker, the giver, the seen and the unseen — hearing and seeing all this, the heart is left wonderstruck.
The Arc
From the Guru you receive the treasure of the Naam, and you are full, wanting nothing more. The One makes everything and enjoys everything, and feeds every creature. Whatever happens, the One is doing it. The One gives each person their own work, ends life and brings it again, and has no greed at all. Some are made givers, some askers. The One places both pain and joy inside you. To those who turn to the Guru, the Great Giver becomes clear; without the Guru, people wander in the dark. Keep the One in mind always. Listen and look, and you fill with wonder: the One is everywhere. At the centre, the Rahao: with the Guru you are free, and the One Naam lives in your heart.
Key Vocabulary
Aapay — He Himself; the drumbeat of the hymn: there is no second doer.
Naam khajaanaa — the treasure of the Name; fullness that ends restless wanting (taripat aaghaaee).
Hukam — the flow of existence; whatever happens moves within it (jo kichh karnaa so kar rahiaa).
Vismaad — wonder, awe; the hymn's closing note.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The aapay litany places every apparent opposite — maker and enjoyer, giver and asker, ending and beginning, pain and pleasure — inside one reality. This is Ik Onkar worked out in detail: not a God outside creation issuing orders, but the single Oneness moving as everything. It rhymes with the other closing here in Raamkalee (2065) that also ends in bismaad, and with the Fifth Guru's hymns nearby that lean the whole self on one support.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee is a dawn raag long associated with yogis and seekers. Fittingly, this hymn answers the seeker's questions not with technique but with recognition: the One you are looking for is already the maker and mover of all you see. The wonder at the end is the natural response of the awakened dawn heart.
The One is the maker, the giver, the seen and the unseen — hearing and seeing all this, the heart is left wonderstruck.
The Arc
From the Guru you receive the treasure of the Naam, and you are full, wanting nothing more. The One makes everything and enjoys everything, and feeds every creature. Whatever happens, the One is doing it. The One gives each person their own work, ends life and brings it again, and has no greed at all. Some are made givers, some askers. The One places both pain and joy inside you. To those who turn to the Guru, the Great Giver becomes clear; without the Guru, people wander in the dark. Keep the One in mind always. Listen and look, and you fill with wonder: the One is everywhere. At the centre, the Rahao: with the Guru you are free, and the One Naam lives in your heart.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The aapay litany places every apparent opposite — maker and enjoyer, giver and asker, ending and beginning, pain and pleasure — inside one reality. This is Ik Onkar worked out in detail: not a God outside creation issuing orders, but the single Oneness moving as everything. It rhymes with the other closing here in Raamkalee (2065) that also ends in bismaad, and with the Fifth Guru's hymns nearby that lean the whole self on one support.
For Raag Raamkalee
Raamkalee is a dawn raag long associated with yogis and seekers. Fittingly, this hymn answers the seeker's questions not with technique but with recognition: the One you are looking for is already the maker and mover of all you see. The wonder at the end is the natural response of the awakened dawn heart.