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This Sabad says that IkOankar has given support, due to which all sufferings have been removed, and the pervasiveness of IkOankar is being experienced. The divine Bani originating from IkOankar’s court has removed all worries. It is believed that Guru Arjan Sahib revealed this Sabad in gratitude to IkOankar (the Divine) on the joyous occasion of the birth of his son (Harigobind).
soraṭhi  mahalā  5.  
 
parmesari  ditā  bannā.  dukh  rog    ḍerā  bhannā.  
anad  karahi  nar  nārī.  hari  hari  prabhi  kirpā  dhārī.1.  
santahu    sukhu  hoā  sabh  thāī.  
pārbrahamu  pūran  parmesaru   ravi  rahiā  sabhnī  jāī.  rahāu.  
dhur    bāṇī  āī.  tini  saglī  cint  miṭāī.  
daïāl  purakh  miharvānā.  hari    nānak    sācu  vakhānā.2.13.77.  
-Guru  Granth  Sahib  628    
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The rag (musical mode) this composition is set in is used to evoke feelings of detachment and emotional love. It often has to do with having a strong belief in something in pursuit of a particular experience that is still not happening. There is still an effort to be made.  

Guru Arjan says, O virtuous beings! Happiness has prevailed in all places. The Transcendent Being, the perfect Supreme Being, is dwelling in all places. The Guru addresses us as Santo, which can be understood as saintly or virtuous beings. Among Christians and in popular culture, sainthood is given after death. Here, it is while we are alive and includes all of us. Regardless of what we feel or what those around us feel, we are still called saintly or virtuous because there is an element of truth within each of us that the Guru is referring to show us that we can live and exemplify that truth. We can demonstrate it in our daily lives. The Guru tells us that this is occurring everywhere and is happening now — we have access to it now! This is already happening because the Transcendent IkOankar (One Universal Integrative Force, 1Force, the One), is beyond death. IkOankar is also referred to as the perfect and complete Divine. These are weighty words meant to show us that the One is beyond all other smaller deities and gods. This is the One dwelling in all places, pervading all things. It is not just that the One is pervading all things; it is that the bliss of experiencing that pervasiveness is also present and prevailing. This is the experience of something being present and beautiful, experiencing that beauty as an ultimate feeling. It is intoxicating, and it is vast. When we feel this, we understand that the ultimate happiness is not somewhere else; it is right here and now. It is always happening, and it is everywhere always. The Supreme and Transcendent Being is present in every space and enjoys every space. 

O virtuous beings! Happiness has prevailed in all places. The Transcendent Being, the perfect Supreme Being, is dwelling in all places. The Guru says that when our support becomes of the perfect Supreme Being, all disease and illness, all the loads and loads of sufferings that afflict us, are destroyed. It is not that some of us have that support and others do not; it is that some of us feel it and some of us do not yet feel it, just as some of us do not yet feel the One dwelling in all spaces and enjoying all spaces. When we feel that support of the Supreme Being, we experience comfort and bliss; this happens when IkOankar, the Remover of suffering, bestows grace. This happens when grace enters the body and becomes something we constantly feel and experience. It becomes a part of us. This ultimate feeling of bliss comes when we allow the Supreme One to become our support — when we have softened to become capable of receiving that grace within us, softened to the changes that grace will make within us, adopting that experience within us so that we are constantly feeling it. The Guru invokes big words to refer to IkOankar: Hari (the All-Pervasive One, the Remover of Suffering, the Fear-Eliminator), Prabhu (the compassionate Divine), and Parmeshvar (the Supreme Being), showing us that these vast attributes and names of the One are still those attributes with which we can intimately connect, and intimately feel.   

O virtuous beings! Happiness has prevailed in all places. The Transcendent Being, the perfect Supreme Being, is dwelling in all places. The Guru says that the Infinite Wisdom, the collection of words from the Origin, has come. That Infinite Wisdom has erased all anxiety and suffering. If we still cannot understand those big words used to refer to IkOankar, if we still have not been able to experience Parmeshvar, Prabh, Hari, or Parbrahm, it is through the Infinite Wisdom that we can begin. It is through the exploration of the Infinite Wisdom that comes from the Origin. This is a huge disruption to existing paradigms. In organized religion, there is usually an intermediary through which people can connect with the Divine. There is no intermediary here — no angel, no smaller deity, no religious authority. There is only personal experience of the One. It is this personal experience of the One and relationship with the One that takes care of all worries and anxieties that have entered our consciousness. And that relationship is cultivated through the Infinite Wisdom that comes from the Origin — not spun, skewed, or filtered by religious and political elites or interpreters and commentators. It is through the Infinite Wisdom that the Compassionate Being’s grace is felt by all of us. 

The Guru ends this composition by saying, I have voiced the eternality of the 1-Light. Without this, without the Infinite Wisdom, we only find that our worries grow, and grace is unable to enter our consciousness. The Guru shows us that the way to eliminate these worries and pains and experience bliss is through a personal experience with the One, connection with the One through the Infinite Wisdom, and through voicing the eternal truth of the 1-Light. Will we feel the presence of the One in all spaces? Will we become intoxicated with this feeling? Will we make the Supreme Being our support? Will we pursue personal connection with IkOankar through the Infinite Wisdom? Will we feel the grace? 
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