Not far away at all — and before the One, every label the world stuck on you falls away.
The Arc
The shabad answers Saarang's own longing: the Beloved is door naahee, not far. It gives the way to meet the One — follow the teaching, sit with the Word — and in doing so dissolves caste, class, race, ancestry, and doubt alike. A settled mind loses its pride and cruelty; clinging attachment is released without rejecting love itself; and the shabad closes on the priceless jewel already enshrined within.
Key Vocabulary
door naahee — not far; the Beloved is near.
jaat baran kul — caste, color, lineage — all dissolved before the One.
man maanai — the inwardly settled mind (Mannai).
maa-i-aa moh — possessive attachment that crowds out the One.
ratan padaarath / amolak — the priceless jewel within; the Name.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The caste-leveling verse here is one of the clearest in the raag and is foregrounded per the project lens. The jewel-within image connects to the tradition's steady insistence that the treasure is not out in the world but enshrined in the heart.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang keeps discovering that the longed-for One is close. This shabad makes the discovery social as well as personal: the same nearness that answers the heart also erases the divisions between people.
Translation Notes
jaat baran kul sahsaa chookaa is foregrounded as a caste-leveling verse — every label the world sorts people by dissolves before the One. The third verse's jaara-o (burn away love of family) is rendered as releasing possessive clinging (moh), not the people, in keeping with Guru Nanak's own honoring of family and community.
Not far away at all — and before the One, every label the world stuck on you falls away.
The Arc
The shabad answers Saarang's own longing: the Beloved is door naahee, not far. It gives the way to meet the One — follow the teaching, sit with the Word — and in doing so dissolves caste, class, race, ancestry, and doubt alike. A settled mind loses its pride and cruelty; clinging attachment is released without rejecting love itself; and the shabad closes on the priceless jewel already enshrined within.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The caste-leveling verse here is one of the clearest in the raag and is foregrounded per the project lens. The jewel-within image connects to the tradition's steady insistence that the treasure is not out in the world but enshrined in the heart.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang keeps discovering that the longed-for One is close. This shabad makes the discovery social as well as personal: the same nearness that answers the heart also erases the divisions between people.
Translation Notes
jaat baran kul sahsaa chookaa is foregrounded as a caste-leveling verse — every label the world sorts people by dissolves before the One. The third verse's jaara-o (burn away love of family) is rendered as releasing possessive clinging (moh), not the people, in keeping with Guru Nanak's own honoring of family and community.