The Closing Saloks, Savaiye in Praise of Guru Ram Das (the bard Nal)
Help has reached the smallest and most scorned people before.
The Arc
Sometimes all you can do is ask: please don't let me be shamed. Help has come before. Prahlaad was a boy whose own father, a cruel king, turned on him, and the One kept him safe and brought the king down. When a crowd tried to pull away Draupadi's clothes, more and more cloth kept coming. Sudama, a poor friend, was lifted out of hard times. Ganika, a woman everyone looked down on, said the Naam, and her life was set right. So you ask the Guru, in a hard age, for that same care. At the center, the opening line: now, please keep the honor of Your servant.
Key Vocabulary
laaj - honor
daas bhaat - the servant, the bard
apdaa - hard times
kaljug - the dark age
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep my honor, as You kept theirs Preview: A boy saved from a cruel king, cloth that kept coming, a poor friend lifted, a scorned woman set right.
Today: Sometimes all you can do is ask: please don't let me be shamed. Help has come before. Prahlaad was a boy whose own father, a cruel king, turned on him, and the One kept him safe and brought the king down. When a crowd tried to pull away Draupadi's clothes, more and more cloth kept coming. Sudama, a poor friend, was lifted out of hard times. Ganika, a woman everyone looked down on, said the Naam, and her life was set right. So you ask the Guru, in a hard age, for that same care.
The care that kept their honor is asked for again today.
For today: Ask for help today with one thing you have been carrying alone.
Help has reached the smallest and most scorned people before.
The Arc
Sometimes all you can do is ask: please don't let me be shamed. Help has come before. Prahlaad was a boy whose own father, a cruel king, turned on him, and the One kept him safe and brought the king down. When a crowd tried to pull away Draupadi's clothes, more and more cloth kept coming. Sudama, a poor friend, was lifted out of hard times. Ganika, a woman everyone looked down on, said the Naam, and her life was set right. So you ask the Guru, in a hard age, for that same care. At the center, the opening line: now, please keep the honor of Your servant.
Key Vocabulary
Hukumnama
Subject: Keep my honor, as You kept theirs Preview: A boy saved from a cruel king, cloth that kept coming, a poor friend lifted, a scorned woman set right.
Today: Sometimes all you can do is ask: please don't let me be shamed. Help has come before. Prahlaad was a boy whose own father, a cruel king, turned on him, and the One kept him safe and brought the king down. When a crowd tried to pull away Draupadi's clothes, more and more cloth kept coming. Sudama, a poor friend, was lifted out of hard times. Ganika, a woman everyone looked down on, said the Naam, and her life was set right. So you ask the Guru, in a hard age, for that same care.
The care that kept their honor is asked for again today.
For today: Ask for help today with one thing you have been carrying alone.