ਤੇਰਾ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਭਲਾ ਤੁਧੁ ਭਾਵੈ ॥
tayraa hukam bhalaa tuDh bhaavai.
The Order of Your Will is so sweet, O Lord; this is pleasing to You.
ਨਾਨਕ ਤਾ ਕਉ ਮਿਲੈ ਵਡਾਈ ਸਾਚੇ ਨਾਮਿ ਸਮਾਵੈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥
naanak taa ka-o milai vadaa-ee saachay naam samaavai. ||1|| rahaa-o.
O Nanak, he alone is honored with greatness, who is absorbed in the True Name. ||1||Pause||
Translation by Dr. Sant Singh Khalsa
Your Will is so sweet, Lord — this is what pleases You.
And the only one truly honored, says Nanak, is the one absorbed in the True Name.
When you finally trust it, the flow of life stops tasting like a sentence and starts tasting sweet.
The Pause holds the line that turns Hukam from grim fate into love: "the Order of Your Will is so sweet." When the Will is received with trust, it does not taste like a sentence; it tastes sweet (bhana mitha). This is the emotional heart of accepting the Hukam — not resignation, but the discovery that the deepest current is kind.
A Question to Sit With
What would change if you trusted that the deepest current of life was kind?
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