Blossom, my heart — for the One you hold is a spring that never ends.
The Arc
Spring can live inside you all year. Of all the months, the blessed one is the month your heart holds the One. So let your mind open like a flower. Let go of the proud voice that says me, me, mine. Gather good qualities, the way you gather flowers. Picture your life as a tree. Good deeds are the trunk and the Naam is the branches. Living rightly is the blossom and wisdom is the fruit. When pride falls away, you give cool shade. Use your eyes for wonder, your ears for the Guru's words, your mouth for the True Name. Seasons come and go. Stay close to the One, and you stay green. At the centre, the Rahao: set down your ego and gather the good qualities of the One.
Key Vocabulary
basant — spring; here sadaa basant, always-spring, an inner aliveness independent of the calendar.
parfarh — blossom forth, open like a flower.
haumai — ego, the illusion of being a separate self.
sahaj — natural, effortless ease; here meditation that settles by itself.
haray na sookhee — they do not wither; they stay green.
Themes and Cross-Connections
The tree-of-life image rhymes with Japji's picture of a life that grows rather than a rule that is obeyed. The green-forever promise recurs across Basant — see the M3 opener Shabad 13, jit hariaa sabh jee-a jant, and Shabad 16, man tan hariaa.
For Raag Basant
This opener sets the tone for the entire raag: spring is not scenery but the state of an awakened heart. Every later shabad can be read against this keynote of blossoming, greening, coming alive.
Hukumnama
Subject: Set down your ego and gather what is good Preview: a month of endless spring, a tree of good deeds, eyes for wonder, leaves that stay green.
Today: Spring can live inside you all year. Of all the months, the blessed one is the month your heart holds the One. So let your mind open like a flower. Let go of the proud voice that says me, me, mine. Gather good qualities, the way you gather flowers. Picture your life as a tree. Good deeds are the trunk and the Naam is the branches. Living rightly is the blossom and wisdom is the fruit. When pride falls away, you give cool shade. Use your eyes for wonder, your ears for the Guru's words, your mouth for the True Name. Seasons come and go. Stay close to the One, and you stay green.
Set down your ego, and gather the good qualities of the One.
For today: Pick one good quality you admire in someone, and practice it yourself today.
Blossom, my heart — for the One you hold is a spring that never ends.
The Arc
Spring can live inside you all year. Of all the months, the blessed one is the month your heart holds the One. So let your mind open like a flower. Let go of the proud voice that says me, me, mine. Gather good qualities, the way you gather flowers. Picture your life as a tree. Good deeds are the trunk and the Naam is the branches. Living rightly is the blossom and wisdom is the fruit. When pride falls away, you give cool shade. Use your eyes for wonder, your ears for the Guru's words, your mouth for the True Name. Seasons come and go. Stay close to the One, and you stay green. At the centre, the Rahao: set down your ego and gather the good qualities of the One.
Key Vocabulary
Themes and Cross-Connections
The tree-of-life image rhymes with Japji's picture of a life that grows rather than a rule that is obeyed. The green-forever promise recurs across Basant — see the M3 opener Shabad 13, jit hariaa sabh jee-a jant, and Shabad 16, man tan hariaa.
For Raag Basant
This opener sets the tone for the entire raag: spring is not scenery but the state of an awakened heart. Every later shabad can be read against this keynote of blossoming, greening, coming alive.
Hukumnama
Subject: Set down your ego and gather what is good Preview: a month of endless spring, a tree of good deeds, eyes for wonder, leaves that stay green.
Today: Spring can live inside you all year. Of all the months, the blessed one is the month your heart holds the One. So let your mind open like a flower. Let go of the proud voice that says me, me, mine. Gather good qualities, the way you gather flowers. Picture your life as a tree. Good deeds are the trunk and the Naam is the branches. Living rightly is the blossom and wisdom is the fruit. When pride falls away, you give cool shade. Use your eyes for wonder, your ears for the Guru's words, your mouth for the True Name. Seasons come and go. Stay close to the One, and you stay green.
Set down your ego, and gather the good qualities of the One.
For today: Pick one good quality you admire in someone, and practice it yourself today.