Which of Your countless virtues could I sing? The One holds opposites in peace and hands honor to the overlooked — so the Name becomes the only ground worth standing on.
The Arc
Ghar 7 opens with praise that admits its own impossibility: tayray kavan kavan gun — which, which of Your virtues could I recount? The Rahao makes the Name the single support: mai tujh bin avar na ko-ee, there is no other. The One is both strength (taan) and refuge (deebaan), the sole confidant for pain and joy alike. Then a vivid image of the One who reconciles opposites — water in earth, fire in wood, sheep and lion in one place — offered as the model for how remembrance settles inner fear. The close states the great reversal: har nimaani-aa maan dayvaa-ay, the One gives honor to the honorless, as dust from underfoot rises high.
Key Vocabulary
gunee niDhaanaa: the treasure-house of virtues
Dhar: support, foundation — here, the Name
taan / deebaan: strength and court/refuge
bakree singh: sheep and lion, opposites held together
nimaani-aa maan: honor given to the honorless
Themes and Cross-Connections
The reconciliation-of-opposites imagery (fire held in wood, predator and prey at one place) is a favorite way of pointing to a power that holds all tensions — and the pauri applies it inward, to bharam and bha-o. The closing reversal belongs to the same leveling current as this section’s caste-crossing verses: the One’s honor flows toward exactly those the world ranks low.
For Raag Soohee
The colour of love here dissolves opposition itself: the raag that dyes the whole heart is also the peace in which warring feelings can rest side by side.
Translation Notes
No major bends. nimaani-aa maan dayvaa-ay foregrounded as the shabad’s leveling payoff. Ghar 7 opens at this shabad.
Which of Your countless virtues could I sing? The One holds opposites in peace and hands honor to the overlooked — so the Name becomes the only ground worth standing on.
The Arc
Ghar 7 opens with praise that admits its own impossibility: tayray kavan kavan gun — which, which of Your virtues could I recount? The Rahao makes the Name the single support: mai tujh bin avar na ko-ee, there is no other. The One is both strength (taan) and refuge (deebaan), the sole confidant for pain and joy alike. Then a vivid image of the One who reconciles opposites — water in earth, fire in wood, sheep and lion in one place — offered as the model for how remembrance settles inner fear. The close states the great reversal: har nimaani-aa maan dayvaa-ay, the One gives honor to the honorless, as dust from underfoot rises high.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The reconciliation-of-opposites imagery (fire held in wood, predator and prey at one place) is a favorite way of pointing to a power that holds all tensions — and the pauri applies it inward, to bharam and bha-o. The closing reversal belongs to the same leveling current as this section’s caste-crossing verses: the One’s honor flows toward exactly those the world ranks low.
For Raag Soohee
The colour of love here dissolves opposition itself: the raag that dyes the whole heart is also the peace in which warring feelings can rest side by side.
Translation Notes
No major bends. nimaani-aa maan dayvaa-ay foregrounded as the shabad’s leveling payoff. Ghar 7 opens at this shabad.