Love planted in the heart — and then every sense turns toward the One.
The Arc
The shabad opens with a mind at rest in the Name and love planted by the Guru, moves to a plea for the words beyond words and the essence tasted in good company, and finds that loving the One makes a person both free and full. Its central verse turns every faculty toward the One — eyes, voice, ears, and heart — and it closes as the five restless inner pulls grow quiet and the heart melts into the Name.
Key Vocabulary
man maanee — the mind content in the Name (Mannai).
akath kahaanee — the story that cannot be told; the ineffable.
bairaagi — unattached and free, not cold.
birahu — loving longing.
panch janaa — the five inner pulls: wanting, anger, greed, clinging, pride.
Themes and Cross-Connections
Whole-sense devotion — eyes, tongue, ears, heart all turned to the One, with Suniai at the center — is the keynote here. The five inner forces recur across the Guru Granth Sahib and return in the household shabad B00C2570.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang's longing becomes a way of using the whole body: the eyes that gaze, the ears that listen, the voice that speaks the Name are all instruments of the same reaching toward the One.
Translation Notes
panch janaa (the five thieves) are rendered as restless inner pulls to be settled rather than menacing thieves to be feared, in keeping with the ego-as-illness-to-heal lens.
Love planted in the heart — and then every sense turns toward the One.
The Arc
The shabad opens with a mind at rest in the Name and love planted by the Guru, moves to a plea for the words beyond words and the essence tasted in good company, and finds that loving the One makes a person both free and full. Its central verse turns every faculty toward the One — eyes, voice, ears, and heart — and it closes as the five restless inner pulls grow quiet and the heart melts into the Name.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
Whole-sense devotion — eyes, tongue, ears, heart all turned to the One, with Suniai at the center — is the keynote here. The five inner forces recur across the Guru Granth Sahib and return in the household shabad B00C2570.
For Raag Saarang
Saarang's longing becomes a way of using the whole body: the eyes that gaze, the ears that listen, the voice that speaks the Name are all instruments of the same reaching toward the One.
Translation Notes
panch janaa (the five thieves) are rendered as restless inner pulls to be settled rather than menacing thieves to be feared, in keeping with the ego-as-illness-to-heal lens.