Gurbani: The One in All

Lessons

• 1. Ik Onkar: There Is One – Sri Guru Granth Sahib opens with the Mool Mantar, and its first word is a numeral: Ik, one. "Ik Onkar, Satnam" (Ang 1): there is One, whose name is Truth, the creator, without fear, without enmity, timeless in form,…
• 2. Man Tu Jot Saroop Hai – Guru Amar Das says: "Man tu jot saroop hai, apna mool pachhan" (Ang 441), O mind, you are the embodiment of the Divine Light; recognise your own origin. We wander looking for the Divine outside, while the Light we seek…
• 3. Haumai: The Wall of Ego – Gurbani names the obstacle clearly: haumai, the sense of "I, me, mine". "Haumai deeragh rog hai, daaru bhi is maahi" (Asa di Var, Ang 466): ego is a chronic disease, yet its cure lies within it too. The same "I" that…
• 4. Hukam: Walking in the Will – The first pauri of Japji Sahib asks how we can become truthful and how the wall of falsehood can be broken. The answer: "Hukam rajai chalna, Nanak likhia naal" (Ang 1), by walking in the Hukam, the Divine Will, which…
• 5. Sabh Gobind Hai: All Is the Beloved – Bhagat Namdev sings: "Sabh Gobind hai, sabh Gobind hai, Gobind bin nahi koi" (Ang 485), everything is God, everything is God, there is nothing without God. He compares it to one thread running through hundreds of…
• 6. Naam: Dissolving into the One – Bhagat Pipa says: "Jo brahmande soi pinde, jo khoje so paavai" (Ang 695), whatever is in the cosmos is in the body; whoever searches, finds it. The search is inward, and the method Gurbani gives is Naam simran, loving…