Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
There has never been any other, and there never will be.
So keep the One in your heart — that One alone.
This one means there is only the One, now and always.
doosar ho-aa naa ko ho-ee — there has never been a second, and there never will be. This is the heart of Ik Onkar, the teaching that the One is all there is.
jap naanak parabh ayko so-ee — Nanak says, remember that One God. The whole shabad comes down to this one simple step.
Everything else in the shabad slips away: the glory, the dream, the shiny things. Think of a lighthouse on a stormy night. Waves come and go, but the light stays. The One is what stays.
If you could keep just one thing steady in your heart, what would it be?
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