The whole self longs to see the One — and singing the Name is the road that carries you there.
The Arc
The rahau sets a longing that runs through thought, word, and deed: to gaze on the One with your own eyes. Verse one calls the One endless and past knowing, yet love pierces the heart and is kept as the dearest treasure within. The close gathers every sacred voice — Vedas, Puraanas, Simritees, the holy — into one act: singing the Name, the thing that carries a person across, while whatever keeps you feeling split from the One comes to nothing.
Key Vocabulary
kaankhee — yearning, longing.
darshan — the Vision, seeing the One.
charan kamal preet — love pierced by the Lotus Feet.
nistaree-ai — carried across.
dutee-aa — duality, the sense of being two.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Opens the run's ache of longing that Saarang carries; the inclusive gathering of scriptures rhymes with the raag's later insistence that inward love outshines every outward form.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang is the raag of longing, and this shabad names the longing plainly — to see the One with your own eyes.
Translation Notes
dutee-aa birthee (teachings of duality are useless) is rendered as whatever keeps you feeling split from the One coming to nothing — not a dismissal of other scriptures, since the verse itself gathers Vedas and Puraanas as voices of the same Name.
The whole self longs to see the One — and singing the Name is the road that carries you there.
The Arc
The rahau sets a longing that runs through thought, word, and deed: to gaze on the One with your own eyes. Verse one calls the One endless and past knowing, yet love pierces the heart and is kept as the dearest treasure within. The close gathers every sacred voice — Vedas, Puraanas, Simritees, the holy — into one act: singing the Name, the thing that carries a person across, while whatever keeps you feeling split from the One comes to nothing.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Opens the run's ache of longing that Saarang carries; the inclusive gathering of scriptures rhymes with the raag's later insistence that inward love outshines every outward form.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang is the raag of longing, and this shabad names the longing plainly — to see the One with your own eyes.
Translation Notes
dutee-aa birthee (teachings of duality are useless) is rendered as whatever keeps you feeling split from the One coming to nothing — not a dismissal of other scriptures, since the verse itself gathers Vedas and Puraanas as voices of the same Name.