Sikhism·Raag Tukhaari·Shabad 9
Verse 3 of 4

The One in Every Place and Space

ਤੂ ਥਾਨ ਥਨੰਤਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਏਕੁ ਹਰਿ ਏਕੋ ਏਕੁ ਰਵਿਆ ॥
too thaan thanantar har ayk har ayko ayk ravi-aa.
ਵਣਿ ਤ੍ਰਿਣਿ ਤ੍ਰਿਭਵਣਿ ਸਭ ਸ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਮੁਖਿ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਚਵਿਆ ॥
van tarin taribhavan sabh sarisat mukh har har naam chavi-aa.
ਸਭਿ ਚਵਹਿ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤੇ ਅਸੰਖ ਅਗਣਤ ਹਰਿ ਧਿਆਵਏ ॥
sabh chaveh har har naam kartay asaNkh agnat har Dhi-aav-ay.
ਸੋ ਧੰਨੁ ਧਨੁ ਹਰਿ ਸੰਤੁ ਸਾਧੂ ਜੋ ਹਰਿ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕਰਤੇ ਭਾਵਏ ॥
so Dhan Dhan har sant saaDhoo jo har parabh kartay bhaav-ay.
ਸੋ ਸਫਲੁ ਦਰਸਨੁ ਦੇਹੁ ਕਰਤੇ ਜਿਸੁ ਹਰਿ ਹਿਰਦੈ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਦ ਚਵਿਆ ॥
so safal darsan dayh kartay jis har hirdai naam sad chavi-aa.
ਤੂ ਥਾਨ ਥਨੰਤਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਏਕੁ ਹਰਿ ਏਕੋ ਏਕੁ ਰਵਿਆ ॥੩॥
too thaan thanantar har ayk har ayko ayk ravi-aa. ||3||

You are the One Lord, the One and Only Lord, pervading all places and interspaces.

The forests and fields, the three worlds and the entire Universe, chant the Name of the Lord, Har, Har.

All chant the Name of the Creator Lord, Har, Har; countless, uncountable beings meditate on the Lord.

Blessed, blessed are those Saints and Holy People of the Lord, who are pleasing to the Creator Lord God.

O Creator, please bless me with the Fruitful Vision, the Darshan, of those who chant the Lord's Name in their hearts forever.

You are the One Lord, the One and Only Lord, pervading all places and interspaces. ||3||

# Raag Tukhaari, Shabad 9 — The One in Every Place and Space

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

In plain words

You are the one and only One, filling every place and every space between.

The forests and fields, the whole wide world, all of it seems to be singing Your Name.

Countless beings, more than anyone could ever count, hold You in mind and sing.

How blessed are the good and kind ones who bring joy to their Maker.

Let me be near those who carry Your Name in their hearts always. That would be a gift.

You are the one and only One, filling every place and every space.

All of creation is quietly singing the same One Name.
The deeper layer

Thaan thanantar: "every place and the spaces between" — there is nowhere the One is not. Van trin tribhavan, "forests, fields, and the three worlds," is the whole of creation pictured as a choir singing the Name. Asankh agnat means "countless, uncountable," an echo of the great counting-lists elsewhere in Gurbani where number after number gives up before the One. The request in the fifth line is for darshan, the blessed nearness of those who keep the Name, which is really a request for good company (sangat).

A Question to Sit With

If you got very still outdoors, what do you think the trees and the wind might be "saying"?

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