Shivpreet Singh
Shivpreet Singh
  • Home
  • Music
    • Spotify
    • Apple Music
    • Amazon
    • Pandora
    • SoundCloud
    • Google
    • You Tube
      • Music on YouTube
      • Uplifting Shabads
      • Guru Nanak Shabads
      • Meditation & Chanting
      • Shabads for Kids
      • Shabads of Guru Arjan
      • Shabads of Guru Gobind Singh
  • Videos
    • Uplifting
    • Guru Nanak
    • Meditation
    • For Kids
    • Guru Arjan
    • Guru Gobind Singh
  • Projects
    • DhunAnand Foundation
    • Pandemic 2020
    • Guru Nanak 550
    • Namdev 750
    • Thoughts and Ruminations
    • What I Love to Read
  • News
  • Contact
    • Comment
    • Request
    • Send Email
    • Newsletter
    • FAQs
  • About
    • Biography
    • Photos
    • Music
    • FAQs
Later today I am going to be singing this beautiful poem by Guru Nanak at the Gurudwara. So I recorded something with just a piano -- no effects, just plain and simple live voice and piano.

It's hard to sing truth's essence But I have no other option I live as long as I sing as soon as I forget I die

Translation (just my interpretation)
Saache Naaye means "True Name"

O Mother! Why should I forget,
 What is the truth?

Singing that truth makes me live
forgetting it I die
that truth whose hunger makes
all pains go away

If I tired myself singing I couldn't value
the smallest iota of that truth
even if everyone together could sing
it would not become greater or smaller

That which never dies, no reason for despair
That which always gives to fill the hunger
that is the quality nothing else
there has never been nor will there

As big is the truth as its gift
the truth that makes night and day
who forgets the master truth,
Nanak, is deplorable

Gurbani: -

So kyo visrai meree maaye
Sacha saahib saachai naaye -

Aakha jeeva visrai mar jaao
Aakhan aukha saacha naao
Saache naam kee laagai bhook
Ut bookhai khaaye chaleeyeh dookh

So kyo visrai meree maaye
Sacha saahib saachai naaye

Saache naam kee til vadi-aayee
Aakh thake keemat nahee paayee
Je sabh milkai aakhanpayee
Vadaa na hovai ghaat na jaaye

Naa oh marai na hovai sog
Dedaa rahai na chookai bhog
Gun eho hor nahee koye
Naa ko hoaa naa ko hoye

Jevad aap tevad teree daat
Jin din karkai keetee raat
Khasam visaareh te kamjaat
Nanak naavai baajh sanaat
Newer Posts Older Posts Home

SHIVPREET SINGH

Singing oneness!
- Shivpreet Singh

Related Posts

Popular - 30 days

  • Vande Mataram - Lyrics and Translation
    Vande Mataram is the national song of India. It was composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit. Vande Matara...
  • Kabir's Gao Gao Ri Dulhani - Lyrics and meanings
    One of my favorite Kabir's poem I call "Dulhani." In this beautiful poem, Kabir envisions himself as the bride and the univers...
  • The Many Types of Raag Malhar
    Pour love in your heart, like the rain pours on the land today. As I am working on a Meerabai song I am doing research on the different vari...
  • Gulon Mein Rang Bhare - Lyrics and Translation of Mehdi Hassan Ghazal
    I was listening and meditating upon this beautiful ghazal by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, beautifully composed by Mehdi Hassan. It is one of my favorite...
  • Nasro Mansoor Guru Gobind Singh - Bhai Nand Lal Goya
    I have been singing this shabad for over 30 years; I composed it when I was a teenager. It comes from a fairly long poem of 55 couplets, lyr...
  • Two Raag Basant Compositions of Professor Kartar Singh
    Yesterday, we lost an amazing kirtaniya, Prof. Kartar Singh ji who passed away at the age of 94 years.  He was recently handed over the Padm...
  • Punjabi Tappe - Tappa from the folk tradition
    Today I came across some unusal tappas sung by Ghulam Ali ... I am writing this as I listen to them.  'Tappa' is believed to be orig...
  • Vaishnav jan to tene kahiye je - Lyrics and Translation
    Vaishnava Jana To is a Hindu bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta in the Gujarati language. The poem speaks about ...
  • Earth Day - Finding Peace in Wild Things, and Freedom on Earth
    Happy Earth Day folks! Those who have found love in nature can find true freedom, and inspire others to be free. I believe poetry can be a p...
  • Albert Einstein's Advice to his Son: "Play What Pleases You"
    On November 25th, 1915, Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, the result of nearly ...

Blog Archive

  • ►  2023 (1)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2022 (7)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2021 (138)
    • ►  December (15)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (21)
    • ►  March (35)
    • ►  February (23)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2020 (149)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (31)
    • ►  September (47)
    • ►  August (37)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2019 (43)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (8)
    • ►  October (14)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2018 (54)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (6)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (5)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2017 (72)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (12)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (7)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (12)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2016 (141)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (9)
    • ►  October (16)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (18)
    • ►  March (34)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (11)
  • ►  2015 (29)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (7)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2014 (107)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (24)
    • ►  January (36)
  • ►  2013 (242)
    • ►  December (13)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (62)
    • ►  April (79)
    • ►  March (12)
    • ►  February (23)
    • ►  January (35)
  • ▼  2012 (148)
    • ►  December (29)
    • ►  November (33)
    • ►  October (44)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ▼  April (1)
      • "When I sing I live" - Singing Guru Nanak
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2011 (253)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (28)
    • ►  July (45)
    • ►  June (33)
    • ►  May (15)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (45)
    • ►  February (43)
    • ►  January (23)
  • ►  2010 (71)
    • ►  December (31)
    • ►  November (20)
    • ►  October (3)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2009 (15)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2008 (15)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (1)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2007 (9)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (2)
  • ►  1999 (1)
    • ►  May (1)

Message

Name

Email *

Message *

Twitter

Tweets by @shivpreetsingh


Copyright © Shivpreet Singh. Designed by OddThemes