One Presence Seen Everywhere Is God-Consciousness

Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa

A person who knows the One has two marks. Their inside matches their outside, and they see the One everywhere.

This is the salok, the short verse that opens this part of Sukhmani. It introduces the barahm gi-aanee. Barahm means the One, and gi-aanee means one who knows. So a barahm gi-aanee is someone who truly knows the One, a God-aware person. The next eight pauris paint a picture of such a person.

The salok gives just two marks. First, man saachaa mukh saachaa so-ay — the True One is in their mind and on their lips. There is no gap between inside and outside. Earlier in Sukhmani, the pretender had exactly that gap. Second, avar na paykhai aykas bin ko-ay — they see no one but the One. For them, Ik Onkar, the One in all, is not just an idea. It is how their eyes work.

Think of glasses that let you see one light shining through every face. Everything else in the portrait grows from these two marks: a person with no split inside, looking at a world with no real walls.