176 Shabads · 742 Verses
Raag Saarang
The Commentary
Raag Saarang opens under the full Mool Mantar, and its first verse folds the rahau together with verse one into a single opening breath: the One is fearless, deathless, self-existent, and I belong to it, grasping its Feet so that haumai dissolves. From there the shabad names the One as light closer than breath, watches a self-turned mind grow steady when love fills it, releases the ego and with it the fear of others' opinions, and closes on the One as utterly incomparable, past and future — the Beloved to whom the whole self is joined.
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Guru Nanak (Mehl 1)
Guru Ram Das (Mehl 4)
- Shabad 4Dust of the Feet of the Good
- Shabad 5Carried Across the Deep Water
- Shabad 6Bless Me With the Sweet Name
- Shabad 7How to Work for the One
- Shabad 8Love Planted in the Heart
- Shabad 9The Only Thing That Holds
- Shabad 10The Ones Who Raised You
- Shabad 11Fall in Love With the Life of the World
- Shabad 12The Most Beloved of All
- Shabad 13The One Who Knows Your Heart
- Shabad 14Meditate on the Fearless One
- Shabad 15The Treasure of All Good
- Shabad 16The One in Everything
- Shabad 168The Key That Opens the Locked Room
Guru Arjan (Mehl 5)
- Shabad 17The Rainbird's Thirst
- Shabad 18Nothing Is Truly Hidden
- Shabad 19The Restless Dancing Stops
- Shabad 20Gathering Sweetness, Not Poison
- Shabad 21Nothing Else Interests Me
- Shabad 22Tying The True Word Close
- Shabad 23Wherever You Are Remembered
- Shabad 24Now I Have Something To Lean On
- Shabad 25Joy Too Big For Words
- Shabad 26Don't Gamble Away The Days
- Shabad 27The One Pure Word In The Heart
- Shabad 28Sing, And The Heart Fills
- Shabad 29The Guru's Feet
- Shabad 30Singing The Songs Of Joy
- Shabad 31How Can I Say This Ache?
- Shabad 32Why Not Remember Now?
- Shabad 33How Could I Live Without You
- Shabad 34Blessed Is the Moment I Turned Toward You
- Shabad 35The Teacher Who Fills Every Longing
- Shabad 36Why Chase What Cannot Stay
- Shabad 37Sing, and Watch the Weight Lift
- Shabad 38Good People Lift Everyone Near Them
- Shabad 39A Moment of Peace Worth More Than Paradise
- Shabad 40Come Home — I Am Still Yours
- Shabad 41I Set My Worrying Down
- Shabad 42I Stopped Trying to Force It
- Shabad 43Blind No More — I See the Jewel
- Shabad 44Nothing Equals Even a Hair of You
- Shabad 45The Sense of Separateness Melts
- Shabad 46Love Fills the Mind and the Noise Fades
- Shabad 47Resting in the Lap of the Beloved
- Shabad 48Free of the Five Thieves
- Shabad 49Held Like a Fish in Water
- Shabad 50Every Being Belongs, Every One Is Carried
- Shabad 51The Wealth That Ends the Thirst
- Shabad 52Words of the Beloved, Sweet on the Mind
- Shabad 53The Tongue Grows Beautiful with Praise
- Shabad 54Farther Than Far, Nearer Than Near
- Shabad 55The Beautiful Road to Walk
- Shabad 56The Friend Who Goes All the Way
- Shabad 57Not Even a Hot Wind Can Touch You
- Shabad 58Sweet Word, Light in Every Heart
- Shabad 59The Name as a Companion
- Shabad 60What You Are Looking For Is Right Here
- Shabad 61Loved from the Very Beginning
- Shabad 62Blessed Is the Day You Wake Up
- Shabad 63Doubt and Sorrow, Gone
- Shabad 64My Help, Here and Everywhere
- Shabad 65The Friend Who Is Also the Giver
- Shabad 66The Support That Cannot Be Shaken
- Shabad 67When Remembering Melts the Ache
- Shabad 68A Child Held by a Parent
- Shabad 69Singing Without Fear
- Shabad 70What Holds the Mind Steady
- Shabad 71Not for a Single Moment
- Shabad 72The One Who Held Me From the Start
- Shabad 73Turning Toward Your Own
- Shabad 74What Is Real and Who Is Near
- Shabad 75Not All on My Own
- Shabad 76The Pull That Is Hard to Resist
- Shabad 77Why Spend It All Chasing?
- Shabad 78Known Through the Teacher
- Shabad 79Held Safe by the Name
- Shabad 80All of Me Is Yours
- Shabad 81The Broken Thread, Rejoined
- Shabad 82Coming With a Prayer
- Shabad 83The Good-Hearted Friend
- Shabad 84No Complaint Can Land
- Shabad 85Keep Me As You See Fit
- Shabad 86The Doubt Lifted Off
- Shabad 87Remembering, the Life Is Freed
- Shabad 88The Name Made Plain
- Shabad 89Who Else Is There?
- Shabad 90Into Your Shelter
- Shabad 91The Name That Cools
- Shabad 92O Tongue, Sing
- Shabad 93This One Support
- Shabad 94Everything Tastes Flat Without It
- Shabad 95What I Came Here For
- Shabad 96Traders in the Name
- Shabad 97Who Am I That You Made Me
- Shabad 98Coming Home To The One
- Shabad 99Since I Found Shelter
- Shabad 100The Sweetest Taste
- Shabad 101Heaven Is Right Here
- Shabad 102The Giver Who Gives Truly
- Shabad 103Closer Than You Think
- Shabad 104Truly Alive
- Shabad 105Worth More Than Gold
- Shabad 106The Truly Clever One
- Shabad 107The Sweetest Drink
- Shabad 108When The Name Is Missing
- Shabad 109Doing Business With The One
- Shabad 110Filling The Shallow
- Shabad 111The Moment I Long For
- Shabad 112Always With Me
- Shabad 113The Strength That Makes You Whole
- Shabad 114The Song That Keeps You Breathing
- Shabad 115The Peace That Does Not Wash Off
- Shabad 116When the Light Spreads and the Fever Breaks
- Shabad 117When Nothing Is Ever Enough
- Shabad 118What Keeps the Heart Clear
- Shabad 119The Sweetest Thing to Sing
- Shabad 120The Weight We Keep Adding
- Shabad 121Eating What Only Looks Good
- Shabad 122What Tearing Others Down Costs
- Shabad 123The Wanting That Never Fills Up
- Shabad 124Who Told You to Live This Way?
- Shabad 125Mother, I Found Where to Hold On
- Shabad 126So Full of Joy I Can Hardly Hold It
- Shabad 127Chasing What Fades
- Shabad 128The Crooked Tree Comes Down
- Shabad 129The Book That Is God’s Home
- Shabad 130The Rain That Falls Everywhere
- Shabad 131You Are My Whole Family
- Shabad 132The One Thing You Keep
- Shabad 133Wonder-Struck at the Unstruck Song
- Shabad 134One Love, and No Other
- Shabad 135When the Glass Deals End
- Shabad 136Why the Endless Crying?
- Shabad 137Longing to See the One
- Shabad 138The Restless Fly
- Shabad 139Free in the Middle of an Ordinary Life
- Shabad 140A Bond No One Can Break
- Shabad 141The Loveliest Melody
- Shabad 142A Mind That Keeps the Name Close
- Shabad 143Welcomed at the One's Door
- Shabad 144You Are Mine and I Am Yours
- Shabad 145The Hunger That Never Fills
- Shabad 146Come and Play With the One
- Shabad 147More Than Any Gift
- Shabad 148A Steady Heartbeat of the Name
- Shabad 149The Name on Your Lips
- Shabad 150The One Thing I Ask For
- Shabad 151Free from the Five
- Shabad 152Seeking One Sight
- Shabad 153Only the One Knows
- Shabad 154In Everything, Cherishing Everything
- Shabad 155The Glittering Pull
- Shabad 159An Honest Look
- Shabad 165Gazing on Your Glory
- Shabad 166The Wondrous Story Beyond Reach
- Shabad 167The Giver of Fearlessness in All