Japji Sahib · Chapter 19

Pauri 18 — Asankh (Countless) — the dark side

1 verses · The dark mirror of Pauri 17. Where virtue was countless, so are vice — fools, thieves, oppressors, liars, slanderers. Both saint and sinner are asankh within one Order. Guru Nanak names himself 'neech' (lowly) and refuses the cleansing fantasy that separates good from bad in the human family.

• ¶ Pauri 19

  Countless are the fools, dark with deep blindness